Your life seems sudden
And less familiar –
Sometimes bigger,
Sometimes louder than
You ever expected

Drowning in cacophony
Echoes –
Echoes in the caverns
Of memories you can’t expunge

So yearning to be free

When the lily throws herself wide open
When the eaglet spreads unsteady wings
When the moistened foal first stumbles, then rises –
Entreating the world to see

That is you, in molt,
In catharsis; metamorphosis –
From the splitting cocoon,
Emerges beauty –
Rainbow wings spreading,
Independent and delicate –
Confident and free

Free.

This is you

Kelly Vinal

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-is-you/