Thursday, July 30, 2015

Free to Fail

Free to Fail
Wounded bird now free to fail,
Tumbling from a well made nest,
Nestled in a round oak tree, with circles marking years gone by

To fly once more seems almost an impossible task,
Shaking off years of apathy and comfortable mediocrity

With no definition or direction for what happens next,
Is it fair to fly back into the unknown just to be alone?

Her current path, well known and predictable, yet so predictable, she knows exactly where the journey will end…where it will stop and its limitations.

And then a second path, hedged with thorns and barbed wire,
This road is longer, less clear…dangerously foreboding and unknown.

And yet far in the distance, a distance so far that it makes her weary at the thought of what is required to get there...she sees the first glimmer of a light.

  She feels its warmth outstretched over the path ahead, shining a welcome light of relief to the dark corners peeking out from the thorns and barbed wire
She is free to fail again…if she can lift her wings once more.


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