A Personal Poem

My friend used to say
A body in motion
tends to stay in motion
A body standing still
tends to stay still

My body is still
It is so hard
to make it go
It has so little
motivation
No reason
in my mind
to go anywhere at all.

I want to stay
folded up like a flower
shutting out the world

I wish I could fade away
into nothingness
like a flame with no air
To just die out
into non-existence

If I could wrap myself up
in a cocoon
I would
Where I could heal
and not be disturbed

My mind and body
would grow
into something new
And when I am ready to emerge
I would unfold my wings
let them dry in the fresh air
and FLY
into the
world
Awake
Alive
And confident
A new me
free of the burdens of my past.

Erin K.
Submitted: May 2010