Gratefully : chrysalis

Gratefully I receive

The manifold blessings

Surrounding me

Closing my eyes to the negative strains

And trances of fear

I turn instead to gaze upon a new horizon

Opening before me

God knows this latest phase of frustration

And descent has

At times felt crippling

Was it an incomplete view

That made me lose the way

To hopefulness and joy?

Patterns repeating

Pain that is deepening

Never the less essentially

Pulls me down to rock bottom

And from here there is no other way to go

Than to rise

Using for fuel

All of the challenging experiences

Our souls have endured

As we transform ourselves

Deep inside this powerful chrysalis

Of cleansing, purification

And change