Dark Arsenic
A poem, of sorts
Every month, I record, for the Healing Club, a short meditation on a homeopathic remedy. This month’s remedy is Arsenicum album. The meditation reads so much like a poem that I thought I would share it with you all.
In the dark, we find Arsenicum. In the chill that brings no cooling, in the heat that brings no warmth. We find Arsenicum in the vast and limitless abyss where no crowd of company can banish isolation, we find Arsenicum and Arsenicum finds us. Shaking out the squares of precious mothballed linen, folding and counting and folding and counting, until the lace disintegrates beneath our paper-dry and shaking hands, and the weight of the stones draws the loose rings from our fingers, frigid and shrinking.
Arsenicum comfort us in the night when we have filled ourselves to bursting with corruption, but nothing satisfies.
When we disgorge with wretched heaving all the brass and tarnish of our comfortless hoard, and are left, empty, empty, and abandoned, as a mine shaft impoverished by long delving, silent, but for the lonesome ripples on icy pools left better undisturbed. Arsenicum meet us where sharp fire parches us, cracked and barren beyond restoration, when even the slightest bead of moisture steals away the mineral dust, and then the skies are rent with torrents, emptying our aquifers beyond depletion.
Meet us where the darkest moments of the night demand our full faith beyond proof in the promise of the coming dawn, Dark Arsenicum. Carry us to dawn.
Nourish us with the scanty drops of dew, that they be enough to bring us home again to warm sun and good company, to riches beyond measure that cannot be weighed upon the scales. Purge us of our chosen poisons and restore our soft histories.
Arsenicum. Find us gentle. Find us secure, cooled and comforted and calm and companioned.
Find us in the dark and lead us out of it.
There’s plenty more where that came from - if you are interested in what we do in the Healing Club, since you can see from this meditation that it’s WAY more than just talk about whack-a-mole symptom management, just reply to this email and let me know.
-Sarah