Unraveling

There’s been an ache in me

An ache to truly become me

It took straying so far

Carving and caving, creating a scar

For long I thought this scar was real

Not only that, but indeed, me

Bending and breaking and shifting to steal

An image, a thought, a person to be

I grew and I blossomed, I flirted with it

This light that resided yet hid deep within

It weeped, it cried out, it reached out, it lit

Surrendered, descended then glowed through my skin

I tried to remember that small piece of me

Then one I let shrink, malnourished and weak

No matter how far I ran and at speed

I couldn’t escape the whispering we

Haunted, defeated, at last I recede

And bare this pearl, clear as the sea

No longer a mystery, no cage to proceed

I free this light in me, to shine as it please