Wings and Silk Cocoons

Photo by Birger Strahl on Unsplash

Like a butterfly that used to crawl with sticky legs peeled to the floor,

I am a woman with wings who used to walk wilting.

Back then, I decided to curl into myself and build a cocoon of safety.

But the protective walls I’d built began to stifle.

The barriers around me were breaking my own spirit.  

It was time to unbind.

To embrace the freedom for which I’d doggedly worked and waited.

The time had come to take down the walls that had grown around my heart.

It wasn’t pretty.

And there were times you couldn’t tell the difference between

wings unfolding

and

cocoon silk shedding.

But now my guard is down and my wings are up.

Join me in the silver lining of the clouds. 

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17