I don’t want to leave you behind
But I must
I don’t want to move away from you
But I have learned
There are times I must let go
With trust
I have dragged the blade
Down every curve of my body
Without a flinch
And stepped boldly out
Of the broken skin
Wisdom within
From questioning everything
I was stomaching
I left the carcass
Decaying
Flaying
The dismay from the bone
Weighing everything I had known
Relaying how much I have grown
I picked up the shed
And pelted it
Into the depths of space
In the change
I create
Something beautiful and strange
And the twinkling stars
In the endless scope of universe
Spin in delight
And rejoice
Because I have dismantled the cage
In the discomfort
I braced
I learned to be brave
Stepped out of the cell
Things are not
The same
But all
Is well.
17:56pm - 09/01/25 - on my bedroom floor. Remake of a poem I just wrote and accidentally deleted.