Sting, Karmic Star

Sting, Karmic Star

By Rosie Elizabeth

With Chiron in House One, 

there's a cut that runs deep. 

It’ll be there throughout your entire life, he says.

Oh, by the grace of the Guru. 

So, in unstitched sense, 

I felt you run. 

The trauma, the cheating, the 10 year hurt.

Our skin will cover us, it can. 

No puedes. 

Every time you try, we scrape on ela, 

a story scarred, saudade.

I can’t.

Mírame, no tengas miedo, 

Mallorca close, I can help. 

But wounds like these show gorges, bitter and big.

British cliffs, a dip. 

My tongue, make it yours. 

Bahia salt, it’s not your fault. 

God, we sting. 

Guru? 

Cordoned off, I drop. 

Lo siento, no puedo. 

Every time I help you, 

I sour me. 

Every time I try to save you, 

I lose me. 

Every time I want you closer  

(in Gloriés, my karmic star) 

I ask you please, 

No te acerques a mí.