Transforming Through Ecdysis

THIS POEM IS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SHEDDING THE LAYERS OF FEAR AND INSECURITY AND TRANSFORMING INTO BETTER VERSIONS OF OURSELVES! 

Slithering around

So grounded and oblivious 

Seemingly harmless.. 

But if you know me

You will be aware

At the point of insecurity 

To hissssssss

Is the only defence I know.. 

The poison in me,

Becoming the enemy

Of my own conscience.. 

My love too

Knows no bounds, 

My emotions and expressions 

Have the strength to crush you

In the toughness of my embrace.. 

My exterior becoming unbearable now,

The roughness from slithering through

And surviving in wilderness

Has worn out my skin!

My encounters have matured me

Beyond the layers that protect

My flexible mushy vertebrae.

I am a new snake in process, 

Making efforts to slide through 

My own distressed skin. 

Leave me undisturbed in my solitude 

While I live my acdysis of transforming!

I shall still hiss, 

I shall still love with magnitude 

I shall still carry incurable venom... 

But yet the new version of myself

After surviving this transformation:

I shall hold wider percepectives

I shall see through brighter visions

I shall understand the importance 

Of maturing and sliding out 

Of the boundaries 

Of my own worn out, distressed snake-skin!