Sleeping Beauty

I feel like sleeping beauty

kissed and awoken by

her true self.

Forever changed,

transmuted by self-love.

Alchemized by the soul

elixir of authenticity.

Never to return to

the fantom of my old self.

Re-born in my original skin.

Bare and exposed,

simultaneously vulnerable

and powerful.

Real, raw, alive and awake.

Convinced by hope

I venture forth.

Galvanized by faith

I trust the future.

Made whole by the miracle

I bow to life,

to love and

to the mystery of it all.