Cocoon

Earth meets flame

My cocoon gave me patience
To grow within,
To not rush the journey
And to feel complete.

It took no prisoners
But knew I wasn't ready
Not truly. It saw the rough
And made me soften.

It gave me time.
A solitary existence -
To learn, how to survive
Without surviving.

It knew before me
When I would be ready.
Like charting destiny
It kept me waiting.

My cocoon stood firm,
It protected me -
A security blanket
From reality.

But one day,
It cracked.
Layer by layer.
Glimpses beyond.

The world peeked,
Full of colour.
Beckoning, enticing
And so I emerged.

Each step I took
Was fire on the earth.
Nourishing heat,
Blazing forward.

Red in my wake.