As I opened my eyes this morning,
I stretched.
I didn't stop stretching.
I expanded myself.
I felt my outer shell breaking.
Is this Freedom?
I thought it was.
A spud of excitement grew within
But I kept on stretching, beyond control
Beyond my reach
Beyond the spaces that I actually know.
For a brief second, fear crept in.
I was scared, scared of the unknown
But it stopped.
The fear, the growth, the breaks.
Everything stopped.
I looked down
I was different.
I was beautiful.
I had features unique to myself
But common to all.
I wasn't sure what to do with it.
Then I took a step.
But it wasn't a step.
I was flying
See I had wings
The most beautiful set I had ever seen
I had no ears for those who didn't believe so.
I took off and began to fly
I flew and flew into the darkest night
See all this while I was in a cocoon
Sheltered from this world.
Hidden in darkness
In what I thought was my comfort zone
Little did I know there was a plan
I thought I could hide from it
Sleep it away
But it was a process...
A development
And now I fly today.
Today I am a butterfly.
I had no plan on writing that poem. I literally put my fingers to the keyboard and began to type and that all came out. I was gonna go on about how it's summer and how as a graduate and that I'm open to new things and how this blog will reflect that and how I've had bad experiences, and how I've been dwelling in them, hiding from the world, but now I'm ready to use them to grow. That was the point of the post, thats IS the point. And being a butterfly metaphorically represents it all.
