Metamorphose

Trapped inside
This cocoon of mine
I await,
The changing of the seasons.

I can't
Let anybody
See me,
For I have not yet transformed.

Hiding myself from,
The rest of the world,
I grow day,
By day.
Plunged into deep sleep,
I wait,
And wait.

Winter changes into spring,
The ice recedes.
And breaks away to reveal
The blooming flowers.
A ray of sunlight,
Filters in,
As my cocoon begins
To melt away.

I peer up into the world,
Into a sky of blue.
It seems that the clouds
Have disappeared.
How beautiful it now seems,
As my wall,
Breaks down,
Around me.

Now, renewed by the glow of life
Inside this body of mine
I try to open my wings.
I feel them open;
Feel them
Rip out of me.

Pushing myself from my sanctuary,
I come closer
And closer
To reality.
I have freed the worries
From the cage of my heart.

Finally,
The cocoon disappears.
A new pair of wings,
Strange and unfamiliar at first
Flutter,
And carry me higher,
And higher,
Until I can feel the sun
Shining upon my face.

I am not
Afraid.
For the world is beautiful;
This world behind,
The wall.
Here and there I soar,
Carried by the warm breeze.

I feel,
Elated.
As I have been set free
From the confines of my cocoon.