The following poem expresses something that burst out of me in therapy today.. We become by shedding what was imposed on us, by refusing to fit the narrow confines dictate by others, by loosening those skins that hold our true being in check… we were born to be and to become who we really are deep inside our essence and for many of us this happens by shattering.
The Becoming
You became,
When you believed you were nothing.
When everything you loved deserted you.
When you crawled out of the abyss.
When the darkness was so great
it swallowed you whole,
When failure tried to pinch
your soul between its greedy fingers.
When everyone you cared for broke your heart.
The woman that you are today,
You became her by breaking
Over and over again.
Allow no one to take that away from you.
You are valuable. You are precious.
Because you built yourself from shards
You broke to become.
Emerging From The Dark Night 