Withstanding the Elements

Withstanding the Elements

The burden of mistaken ideas

Weigh me heavy with fatigue

In order to stand on my own feet

I dream to recall the feeling

In order to be who I am

I’m to withstand the winds

Sometimes, tornadoes blow

I must behold my own vision

If I am to remain stacked on my feet

Eloquent like the palm tree

Even away from its inherent home

From the desert heat

It knows to dig

Ever so deep

Let me dig and fan out my palms

Where no shyness speaks

And if it’s the sand that hits my trunk

Let it be that scaling finish

Let the wind and all that I must withstand

Further polish

Further define the local of my roots

Into deep understanding

 

From that place

Let me dream like the cocoon

Knowing out of shells

Comes the birthing of wings

Free from predestined views

They roam around

Solid in the appreciation of the withstanding

That stillness…. before the rain

Before …. the birthing of rainbows

Let me not lose ground

Let me stay still

Quite in an exhale

Of the wind