darkness

I’ve run away from the darkness.
I avoided my shadow.
I was scared to face the demons that lay waiting in that space.

I was running for so long that I forgot what I was running away from.

Until one day… someone guided me.
Empowered me.
And I stopped running.

I turned around and saw my shadow.
I acknowledged my shadow.
But I didn't do one thing.

didn't do one thing...

I didn't embrace my shadow.

I stared into the darkness of my shadow.
Stepped forward and fell in.
Endless falling.

It wasn't until I became aware that all of this was an illusion.
A creation of my own design.

The fear. The anxiety. The panic.

The falling...

None of it was real!

none of it was real...

None of it.

I opened my mind's eye and saw that I was standing there in front of my shadow, looking at it as if it were a stranger.

Not understanding that only when I stepped into the light, did I see my shadow for the first time.

The shadow is me.
So I open my arms to embrace it.
And give myself the chance to become whole again.

#chasingbutterflies