Soaring
My heart was heavy
My body weighed me down
I carried the burden of
Self hatred
Passed down from family
From friends
From every angry word
I ever caught
And held inside my heart
Until one day it broke
And I wept
And wept
Cradled in the arms of one
Who I thought
Could never understand
And as I cried
Each tear was like
Another burden falling from me
Painfully
Tearing from the
Dark and secret place deep down
But finally
The tears were gone
And with them went
The heaviness
The burden of my life
And I saw
As if for the first time
The sky and the sun and trees
And I rose
Awkwardly
On freshly grown wings...
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