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8.19.2012

Cocoon Poem


~Cocoon~

pressing against the barrier 
ready to break out of this slumber 
and stretch into an unknown place 
it's time
“oh, it's an awful thing to be a favorite of heaven”
a painful blessing

shocks of beauty surge through me
from when i was melted down and re-formed
on His anvil, by His hand
in a cocoon of protection 
fed the bread of adversity 
and given water of affliction to drink 

emerging from a past identity 
of a poisonous caterpillar
resurrected and loved much
happy birth day butterfly.


- Jenn Bowden Aug. 2012

*quotation by Charles Spurgeon

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