uprush

On the brink of new life I hover

Waiting the uprush of the wind

that sings of hope and promise

Here on the edge I falter

Unsure if my wings

are strong enough to carry me

and yet inside my heart

I taste the feeling of flight

There was a time when darkness

Crushed me

And I lay broken

Not knowing if I could ever summon again

The will to live

Perhaps I had to be broken

I will never know

Perhaps I had to be abandoned and alone

To find my inner power

To see all the ways I let it be

Stolen

I don’t know why it was so hard

To love myself

To believe in myself

To drown out the voices of the world

That cut me down

I only know I lost myself

Somewhere

And inside

I almost died

From the losing

But now I know

There will come a time

To taste the joy of flight

And it will not mean

A running away

Rather it will be

An affirmation of life

And of my power

To truly live it