All sides of you together

My Hometown Poem #104

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Holiest one, child among us,
You are born yourself, wholly yourself
You enter the battlefield 
And wage war
All sides of you together 
Visible and invisible
Sword and shield
Against the enemy

Who are we when we are formed
Man or woman or god
The divine in us has no gender
We enter the battlefield alone
Drawing on all our attributes
Our faith our rage our hope our courage
To defeat the enemy

Holiest one, child among us,
You are born yourself, wholly yourself
You are born into a capsule, into flesh
Your physical body merely a shell 
To house your soul, your perfect soul
You are energy, visible and invisible, formless
The incarnation of pure love, pure light
Your spirit transforms you into a warrior

Do not surrender do not give up do not lay down
Give us your sword and your shield
We are on the battlefield with you
Waging a war of compassion
To see beyond the surface
To embrace the visible and invisible
To defeat the enemy, the fear within us
To fight for all sides of you together 
All sides of us together 

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