New Heights

He always says, lay your problems at my feet. I don’t know how to do that… I’ve tried. I don’t understand how to let go. But I’m bleeding now and I have to do something. The ugliness of the world has me surrounded and I can’t get away. Then out of nowhere there appeared a rope ladder. I didn’t think, I just climbed. The blood dripped out of my wounds with every flex of my muscles, climbing each rung, one by one. It didn’t matter how slow the progress was as long as I was making some. The higher I ascended the less I bled. Below me now I could see the chaos and confusion I had come from… but I was finally out of reach. I climbed higher and higher until I was surrounded by the soft fluffy clouds I had always longed to touch as a child. I stopped to savor the moment. I just wasn’t ready for the freedom of the clear blue sky yet. It is was just too big of a leap from my old life of confinement & limitations. The clouds surrounded me, offering a new & comforting way to experience freedom without being overwhelmed by its vast possibilities. I still clung to the rope ladder, I wasn’t yet ready to fly. But I knew one thing for certain. I would never go back to where I came from.