Fighting Becoming

Fighting Becoming

Trying to escape from within me

Something I have yet to become

The pain of change stabbing from within

Battling with what I am now

Undoing all that I had been

Forcing me to a place I don’t want to go

In reluctance, facing acceptance

What will be if I acquiesce?

Who will I become?

Courage, be my friend

Extend your hand and meet my reach  

Keep the enemy of stagnancy from preventing

The change that could be. 

I long to be free.

(Painting by Max Ernst "Fireside Angel")