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Bursting Out of our Shell

New Normal

By compassion24Published 4 years ago 1 min read
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Bursting out of our shell

Home has filled our days

In solitude we ask how many more there will be

We wonder about fights to come in the form of images and traumas

This new normal post- apocalyptic

But the tunnel, though long has a light at the end,

Whatever this new will be, it incorporates all of us left

We must grow, change, move, glow

Learn

We must never go back to how things were because there was room to grow

Growth compounded upon knowledge challenged by old thinking

No, it will not be as it was before, but is that bad?

Just as caterpillar cocoons to become a butterfly

Its fragile cage protecting it as it transforms

How does it know the right time to come out?

Is it intrinsic, or has it just evolved in metamorphosis so much that the shell can no longer contain it?

We must have had to do the same, been encapsulated, in order to move forward

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About the Creator

compassion24

Compassionate about people, processes and the human rights of others. I look for the good in people and my glass is half full, whether I fill it or someone else does. I hold a Doctoral degree in healthcare, and am a freelance writer

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