Let me show you the veil
how easy it is to step between
the illusion of clouds
yesterday on one side
tomorrow on the other
your life here
waiting for your renewal
take in the deep breath of promise
release, on the exhale, regret
anxiety and despair
you are not here to trap
space. Time moves
through you and everything
not to be captured
but to be lived
For Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt “Renewal.” To participate, please click here.
There is a tempest inside of you
a storm collecting every cell into being
yet you scatter them
rejecting
until they become the wounded
cowering in this cage you have created
its walls only as strong as your might
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The will to dissolve comes from the inside
see the nymph hovering in stasis
her exoskeleton an ugly sheath
holding the becoming
before she can fly she must crawl
waking one leg, and then the other
stretching into the whole
the eyes must learn trust
as they peer through the gaps
and gather the reluctant parts
take as long as you need
feel the journey new
the body moving outside of the shell
ripples the molecules
until they adhere into wings
when you are ready, spread the veins wide
allow the space in between to unfold
and open to the blue beyond
Life continually humbles
Throwing me backward into the current
To tumble among rocks
Where am reminded that I am a collection
Of molecules adhered into a body
To experience unity, even though
The mind reaches for division
Parting the elements with thoughts
Breaking cohesion with beliefs of otherness
But when I am swept backward
Back into the current that is life
I am reminded of Truth
The essence of things broken down
Into origins. That I am a body flowing
With molecules holding hydrogen to oxygen
Bound to carbon stolen from a life before me
Realizing, I have borrowed this collected body
So that I might experience life gathered together
Before its bonds are broken, then gathered, once again
Into the ever-flowing current
The Light Behind the Story 