Battle Plans by Thomasina

10.24.99 Battle Plans
Writing by Flashlight

4AM
    She prepares for battle by the full moon light.
9AM
    She will join her family for breakfast
10AM
    She will review plans with matriarchal figures.
NOON
    She will most likely cry.
Sometime after noon
    She will proceed to the skirmish line.
Sometime after that
    She will pray.
Late Afternoon
    She will arrive.
Sometime That Evening
    She will vomit.
    She will review her plans.
    She will review her life.
Eventually, on the eve of the October Full Moon, 1999...She will confront a man about infidelity, betrayal and treason. By the high court, she will speak her truth. (She will love again, she will live again.) And there, on the field of used-to-be dreams
she ill retake claim to the territory which used to be her home.
"I have seen the enemy, and the enemy is thyself."
(I feel my brother Ron, giving me strength.)
The Next Day
    She will have survived the battle.
    She may possibly be wounded.
After That
    She will seek out healing from spiritual figures.
    She will meditate.
    She will dance.
    She will practice the art of Tai Chi
    She will be a poet-writer-novelist-painter...
    She will live again.
    She will love again.

BATTLE STATEMENT:
    Home is where the heart is and it shall not be divided.