Day 29 Transformed

Finally, here’s today’s prompt (optional, as always). In “After Turning the Clocks Back,” Jennifer Moxley links present with past, using a few well-placed details to invoke both a sense of the daily “now” and a nostalgic sense of the speaker’s long-ago life.

In your poem today, similarly compare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind.

Transformed

I didn’t know it was fear until trust took its place

between the walls of the home we should rest

in. And who’d have thought that grace could replace

the demands that whipped from me less than my best?

Where roller-coaster rides on rough terrain was my norm

now there is the deepest peace within the fiercest storm;

because light guides my feet close by my Saviour’s side

opening doors that fear used to block, tempting me to hide.

I hadn’t known how dark it was until the lights went on,

hadn’t known how lonely I was before I knew His name;

Accepted, loved, a cherished daughter of God Most High

Having been a mediocre caterpillar, I’m now a beautiful butterfly!