Learning to Fly

After reading an excerpt from the book 'Chrysalis' by Emma Kate Codrington, I have come up with my piece for my writing group this week. She suffered anorexia nervosa in her teenage years & now looks to raise awareness & funds for a respite centre here in Adelaide. Our subject matter is "sticks & stones" & this took me down a completely different path to what I was expecting, or had initially thought....

This is the piece from Emma's book:

I WISH

i wasn't so fragile
and breakable
like a faerie
i could run wild, barefoot
and free
i trusted myself
someone adored me
i felt beautiful
i could cry & release the gunk
i could fly

Emma Kate Codrington



this is my piece:

LEARNING TO FLY

Macy wants to fly

fly away

from this world

from her current frame

she is going to

emancipate

her body

her image onto

another screen

…...set off and be free

As I look on

with horror

at the sticks now forming

inside her fragile shell

I only see

Macy emaciated

beyond recognition

of her former self

Macy I want you to be

truly free

free from your

broken view

your disjointed

parody of life

only then

will you run

faerie like and free

only then will

you be beautiful

and fly...

TK xx