Emerging

Do you see the shadow of a person among the sunflowers,

looming in the middle of the page?  That' s me,

and this is a self-portrait drawn with colored pencil

in the autumn season of 1997,

during my first year in college,

(at a university I spent one year attending.)

If I were to redraw this picture now,

I would not place myself as a shadow,

lost behind the sunflowers

enveloping me.

How many years later is it now?

My, it's fifteen.

And finally, I am emerging.

- - - - - - - - -

hidden deep within

enveloping cocooning,

held fast perhaps -

embraced in enfolding

until quiescence brought forth

a complete forming

of love, fully known

and experienced

through metamorphosis.

truths unknown

until the process completed;

the manifestation of emergence -

 and i can see me.

~brianne