Heart Reading … Day 80

Karen Willard Ribeiro
3 min readOct 4, 2021

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The Pursuit of Wellness V

This is day 5 of 10.

I wrote today’s heart reading … and then Day Eighty pushed itself through.

So here — in honor of the grace and gorgeous equity I feel from the Wu Tang: An American Saga clan (and production crew) — is my peace (V):

Day Eighty

Assigned this skin this skin at birth

Who (the F) told me told me my worth

Doctors, lawyers — not Indian chiefs

Hell no!

Mad men, media — spiritual thiefs

I reclaim my spirit! — — — to all who’ll hear it!

I reclaim my spirit! — — — to all who hear it!

Digested in — the belly of this beast

Shit out molested while they had their feast

Bit my tongue — for what?! — so they can save face

Damn girl #Timesup on all that disgrace

I reclaim my spirit! — — — To all who’ll hear it!

I RECLAIM MY SPIRIT! — — — TO ALL WHO HEAR IT!

Decades of fines, I’ve stumbled & I fall

How many times can I dust off it all

Growing bone achy and hittin them lows

Stripped down butt nakey and then it snows

Taking so much just to learn how to breathe

Babe, she says, breath — is all you spirit need

Baby, She says, breath — is all you spirit need.

Thinkin I’m spittin in the wrong direction

Breaking down visions of patriarch attention

Day-to-day holding interpersonal tension

Feeling ebb & flow gives life her dimensions

Girl don’t make me cry, She holdin half the sky

No Lie!

Rosie be rivetin choices be pivotin

This shit is serious don’t be delirious

She wait fate in limbo for wind shifts and signs yo

Saved from the ego and tests of libido

The voices the noises the boyzees hypnoses

Brain drain fame game — all for da boys shame

Trauma hits everyone every ONE in my class

Please and for your sake take your feet off the gas

Life’s almost too beautiful, you know what I’m sayin?

The answer is simple, when you on your knees praying ………

For the gifts comin at you even when you can’t see em

For the myths spinnin in you — keepin it real

For the risks you be takin even when you can’t reach em

For the bricks you be laying — building for real.

I reclaim my spirit! — — — to all who’ll hear it!

I reclaim my spirit! — — — to all who hear it!

So it’s come to Day Eighty — in all these heart readings

I’m feeling Infinity — and potential [for] all beings

Pursuing wellness with a full and open heart

10 days of all this — a gift of my art

I write from my spirit giving back to the Source

Creator of all past and our future course

Can he trust She gotchu? — Bless you!

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Nothing new … ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸

… … Just How … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

¸.·´¯`·…¸><((((º>¸.·´¯`·…… And now

… … With me … (^ __ — )

… And you /|\(◦,◦)/|\

… … Just How … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

¸.·´¯`·…¸><((((º>¸.·´¯`·…… And now

… … With me … (^ __ — )

… And you /|\(◦,◦)/|\

So what’s all this got to do with the pursuit of wellness?

It’s all — about — ex-pression.

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Karen Willard Ribeiro
Karen Willard Ribeiro

Written by Karen Willard Ribeiro

Beyond Karen: emerging from the depths of an epic epithet is available at innerfortune.com and at your favorite independent bookseller. Thanks for reading.

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