Release the Moment

 

Release the moment from images of your mind.

Let it carry your soul on the pale lily

Of springtime blooms or crystalline flakes

On the hushed breath of winter snow.

 

Free the butterfly of your soul,

Long trapped in gossamer threads of its cocoon,

Sleeping through its life until a stirring

Says it’s time to break the hardened shell.

 

Shed your past, but not in haste or any reason,

Spread trembling wings as sunlight gives them strength,

And feel the threads fall away like withered leaves

Pushed by buds of each new moment to lift your wings.

 

 

 

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