Emergence…

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She had a perfect life…

Love…passion…family…

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One day…

The world crushed her…

Sent so much agony…barraged…

She didn’t know how to go on…

Her children…

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She would wrap herself in a cocoon and brave this painful new world…

To spite incoming insidious cruelty…

She withstood the severest of storms…

Onslaught after onslaught…

Cocoon standing strong…

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One beautiful day she knew she was free from oppression….

She knew she had won…

This battle of her life…

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Now she begins the journey into this new unknown world…

First…she must break out of her cocoon…

Slow and steady…

Gently like the butterfly…

Strong… yet so very fragile…

It is not a quick process…

She is the only one who can break herself free…

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And like the butterfly…

If she doesn’t do it on her own…

She will not survive the new world…

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Copyright © 2012 Christina Brownlee

Can you see…

“Where beams of imagination play,

The memory’s soft figures melt away.”

~Alexander Pope ~

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Can you see me?

Can you see all that’s happened…

All that’s changed me…

The metamorphosis…the struggle, fear, determination,

unbearable solitude…

Forced strength coming from a place even I didn’t know existed…

A million tears…

Ripped in half…

Smiling on the outside to cover so much…

too much…

Packed up..

Locked away…

Hidden on purpose from myself…

Can you see me?

The real me…

deep inside like you used to?

Ready to break out of this suffocating cocoon…

Ready to be free…to fly…

Can you see?

I’m almost there…

All that’s left is buried in me…

Can you see?

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Copyright © 2012 by Christina Brownlee ~