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!
dawnfanshawe 
