I dance upon the darkness
My beauty burns the night
My life is birthed from embers
In blackness….I am light
I leap and dance each time I rise
From my sprite-hearted rest
Balletic movements, yellow eyes
My ornaments from fe’st
My frenzy show of fury
In truth, I create calm
I pray upward to heaven
And touch God with my palms
I’m flaming ambidextrous
With prism heated hues
I soar to highest pinnacle
From orange, to red, to blue
I rage with haunting elegance
Inferno breathes me higher
When born of earthly elements
I am God-given fire
Dr. Robin Witmer-Kline, Ph.D., LPC, C-PD is a full-time Psychology Faculty member at Hagerstown Community College.She also is a licensed clinical psychotherapist and Certified Personality Disorder clinician in the state of Pennsylvania with over 25 years clinical and teaching experience.Dr. Witmer-Kline earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Christian Psychology and combined her faith and her love of psychology and poetry for her dissertation in which she examined poetry therapy and faith’s effects on reminiscence, mood, cognition, and self-esteem in the elderly.She lives in Greencastle, Pennsylvania with her husband and family.