I find myself inside this chrysalis

             struggling against these chords

            I’ve spun around me

So much easier

            to crawl these leaves forever

            living my base existence

            seeing nothing but this square of green

Yet something within me longs

            to know more

            to be more

So I fight myself

            pushing against this cocoon

            struggling towards the unknown

Muscles ache; I grow frustrated

            I want to give up

I’ve never seen what I will become

I only know

            if I do not change

            I will die

And so I fight to grow

            trusting in my Creator

            to make me more beautiful

© 2006, Jennifer Davidson

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Jennifer Davidson (stay-at-home mom from Oklahoma) recently emerged from her cocoon of early-mid-life crisis (turning 30) with a few gray hairs and crow's feet, but more beautiful in the sight of her Maker.