Thursday, 29 July 2010
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By Saskia Maddock  All I think isI need to do this To go below, to move slowly To believe in my breath In the cold blackness I pass the portal and begin the descent Into a freezing abyss I search the darkness stretched before me For reasons to keep moving down Down into that mystery One step at a time Into the hard-edged chasms Lit by my insignificant light Boulders gigantic and deadly Buttressed as they have for millennia Indifferent rock that knows me not I come to rest at the bottom of the caves I am afraid My heart is pounding I stand still, shaking Trying to find a respite from this fear so real But I’m here…I keep breathing Then at last gratefully up Up into the light Up to the shining, noisy world Into sun and wind, and tears Maybe I will never know From where the strength beneath my skin flowed But how I needed to do this…  • Born in the Netherlands, Saskia Maddock immigrated to Canada with her family in 1967. She loves languages and speaks more or less fluent French, Dutch and German, with a bit of Spanish thrown in. She has always been drawn to express herself in poetry, to recognize and to communicate on paper those moments when she understands the reality around her. After years of friends and family suggesting she go public with her writing, she finally decided to do so. Her first book life unmasked is part of her journey through this wonderful, chaotic, messy world of ours. |
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