Your life seems sudden <br />And less familiar – <br />Sometimes bigger, <br />Sometimes louder than <br />You ever expected <br /> <br />Drowning in cacophony <br />Echoes – <br />Echoes in the caverns <br />Of memories you can’t expunge <br /> <br />So yearning to be free <br /> <br />When the lily throws herself wide open <br />When the eaglet spreads unsteady wings <br />When the moistened foal first stumbles, then rises – <br />Entreating the world to see <br /> <br />That is you, in molt, <br />In catharsis; metamorphosis – <br />From the splitting cocoon, <br />Emerges beauty – <br />Rainbow wings spreading, <br />Independent and delicate – <br />Confident and free <br /> <br />Free. <br /> <br />This is you<br /><br />Kelly Vinal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-is-you/
