A Forest of You and Me
January 1st, 2023
Each of us - a tree
A branch - a new chapter
An extension for life to grow
Reaching in new directions
Chasing our North
Changing of the seasons
Leaving traces of our evolution
Blossoming
Shedding
Resetting
Weather testing us
Fighting the pressure of a breeze
The power of flow
The weight landed upon us
We break against the storm
Our limbs fall crashing down
ripping away a piece of you
A knot remains
Our skin rebuilds
Buries our brokenness
Deeper and deeper beneath our surface
Tear me open
Expose the depths of me
My buried secrets
How they’ve built me.
Patterns tell our stories
growth, new beginnings, lessons.
Knots appear and transforms
the straight paths we thought we were on.