Living Now – a poem by Pernille Bruhn

Living Now

Something entered 
and struck a match 
against my chest wall 
and a fire was lit.

And what had struck 
stayed 
to tend the fire 
that became 
an unfading flame. 

I am living now 
with this constant 
burning
and its widening 
light. 

I am unable now 
to not see 
from inside my heart.

Pernille Bruhn, PhD, is a poet, dancer and heart whisperer calling the Earth her home. A former academic and psychologist, she was impelled to embrace a radically different way of living, being and writing when a brain injury changed her abilities and life trajectory. Today, you will often find her lying on the ground; resting, writing poems by hand, and dreaming of an Earth witnessing a global blossoming of the human heart. Her poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Dawntreader, London Writer’s Salon’s Anthology Vol. 4, and Tvergastein Journal.