Light-ness

I feel lightness.

Like my soul
has been unchained...
liberated.

A simple thought
changed everything.

My obsession
consumed me,
blinded and scarred me.

But it's all gone now.
Evaporated...
Like it never even existed.

The unbearable weight
of sadness
fell off like
a heavy armor.

I feel like a butterfly
as it finally detaches
from its cocoon
and takes flight.

Or like a bird
that with a final push,
bursts out
of its shell.

Suddenly
the world is there!

And though I know
that my entire life
is just the blink of an eye
in the infinite of time...

Still,
I stake my claim.

I am here, now.

And I live abundantly.

Carmen Colombo
April 2005