Liminality

Flashbacks and dreams 

Are morphing into a temporary reality 

For a girl - the participant 

In the rite of liminality.

Silent days have exhausted 

A sea of youthful steam 

Boiling to ease and guiding the soul 

To an introspective breeze 

Lingering between space body and time 

As she is repositioning her place 

Within herself  in spectral streams 

Quieting an overwhelmed mind

When She dares to speak 

Asking the universe’s force 

To transport her to a home 

After the in-between 

Of living in a liminal soul.

Her condition virtually devoid of hope 

Required that of a phantom’s stroke 

To reconstruct her self-identity 

Through a single touch

Nudging her over the threshold 

To pave her way into a new community 

Beyond the stage of ambiguity. 

As for the ritual to be complete

She had to believe in her own fluidity, 

Rejoice in the chaos procured by the

Dissolution of social hierarchy

 Placed into her being by no one but herself -

Allowing herself at last to be 

Beyond liminality 

Written by Sophie Marx