Cracking Open

Cracked Open

She fell out of the sky, wings aflame, plummeting to the earth in a deadly spiral.

Fear rushing up into her body as she tried her useless wings.

Her eyes locked onto the rocks below
              already imagining the explosive pain 
                    as her body smashed onto the granite.

Somewhere a whisper - a reminder from another place - "the rocks are your salvation". 

A part of her craved the rocks, even longed for them like a lover to her beloved.

In the very moment she hit the rocks
          she surrendered.  
                    Surrendered to the imagined pain. 
                    Surrendered to the illusion.

And
   in that very next moment
                    she soared.  
                    Her glorious wings, outstretched, tickled the earth as she soared heavenward
                    and the broken shards of the old fell away.

Tears of thanks flowed from her eyes.
         As light and love filled her soul.