Five-Minute Friday - Fly

  

I'm joining up with a writing group over at Lisa- Jo Baker's called Five-Minute Friday where the idea is to write for five minutes flat on a prompt posted on her blog.

  

It’s time to silence the inner critic.

It’s time to hush the voice that whines on and on about how you’re no good.

It’s time to cram out the distractions and excuses and take pen to paper, keyboard to screen and write.

This week’s prompt is “Fly”

Start

The butterfly finally emerged from the cocoon after her long struggle, and gazed about in quiet wonder. 

What had changed? 

The world was the same, yet fundamentally different, now capable of inspiring a strange sense of awe from deep within her. The leaves of her simple bush were still the smooth green tasty treat of days past but she had lost her overriding desire to consume them. As insatiable as before, her appetite was now for different things.

But what?

For the first time she looked upwards and truly saw. The blue sky and all it promised pairing with a golden sun, beckoning warmth and enlightenment. A life beyond the next contented mouthful. The whispering wind put a delicate hand upon her shoulder and lent its voice to her ear, chanting over and over “something different, something better.”

A dream that never had been before, suddenly was. She felt the longing in her gut, in her cells, in her mind and believed, believed with all her heart. The delicate morning light of a freshly born spring day was her last and her first.

In one fluid movement, she unfurled wings born of faith and flew.

Stop