shedding skin {misty}

 

pulling out of the old scarred skin

(old rough thing i don't need now

i strip off 

slip out of

leave behind) 

i slough off deadscales

flick skinflakes to the ground

shedding toughness

peeling layers down

to vulnerable stuff

and i'm blinking off old eyelids

for a new way of seeing

by the rocks i rub against 

i'm going to be tender again

~ harryette mullen

Comments

[Jennifer White]

I don't know this one but I love the picture I see of shedding skin. Seriously, shedding skin...new life... new beginnings... peeling away layers of not just skin, but emotion, visually seeing something different w/new eyes... this says quite a bit to me... yet again... we're swirling in a kind of tornado of opportunities.