GRIGRIS REPELLING DEMONS
My body was on this beach
but my mind and soul were not
She wasn't in my life anymore
but i could still feel her look on me
Before leaving she handmade a fabric pouch
dedicated to our love by a full moon night
on which she embroidered these words :
"emotional baggage" with her witch white fingers
She left me but before she captured my soul
And attached it to hers with her enlightening smile
saying "it's our pouch, we put what we want in it,
a seashell, a flower, a stone, a candy, sand, tar, weed,
a magic mushroom, two hairs, a piece of skin each..."
My mind and soul were in limbo
but my feet were walking on the wet sand
when i saw some snakes of colorful crumbs
seashells, stones, algae, feathers but mainly
micro plastic waste dumped by the ocean
and shaped by the lips of the waves.
I started to frame parts with my camera
and realized that I was assembling charms
grigris that could have been put in our amulet
I thought the ocean was giving me the material
to break the spell in which my heart and soul were chained
Perhaps it was but in my pain I was self-centered
Then I stepped back and saw the big picture
The ocean was using my eyes to shape charms
Not only for my heartache but for the planet itself
to repel its own demons, those who destroy and dirty, us.
