I feel a shift of mind
a weight within with a will to fall
pieces needing to drift
fractures needing to see light
composition needing change
I hold up inside because that’s what I know
keep myself together through the frosted winds
hardness maintained for purpose but,
purpose has been served.
I’m melting from within
knowing it will reach my surface
I’m careful
knowing my only power is to yield
I’m quiet
knowing I’m naked with nothing to lose but time
I’m still
knowing my vulnerability is raw.
It can be breached by a glance and
I can be felled by simple words.
02 Aug 2010, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska, USA — USA, Alaska, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Icebergs calve with massive splash from Dawes Glacier in Endicott Arm — Image by © Paul Souders/Corbis
D i a r y I n c a r n a t e 
Beautiful.
By: HemmingPlay on March 10, 2015
at 5:29 AM
It doesn’t feel that way. : )
By: Jayne on March 10, 2015
at 8:49 PM
Simple words oft do the most efficent felling.
By: Marian Green on March 10, 2015
at 5:37 AM
That’s why I’m staying away from talking people. : )
By: Jayne on March 10, 2015
at 8:50 PM
The constant flow – the ice river – both allows for advancement and demands separation. It is an apt metaphor. The breakaway is what allows us to continue to flow. And our greatest weight is under the surface; it buoys us and pulls us under at the same time.
And KT Tunstall sings, She’s waiting like an iceberg, waiting to change / but it’s cold inside / she wants to be like the water…
I was in Glacier Bay National Park last summer, and witnessed a 16 story chunk of ice sloughing off the end of the glacier. There was a crack like thunder, and a low rumble that grew in intensity, then – finally – the break and splash of departure. Not sinking, not floating. Apart, no longer separate from the whole. It was breathtaking and frightening and beautiful.
As are we all.
By: Mrs Fever on March 10, 2015
at 6:41 PM
Yes, as we all are. In looking for a picture/video for this, I saw a video of the largest “break” and I was terrified just watching it. They then give something to size the part that broke off – it was the size of lower Manhattan but with taller buildings! Wait until you see them overlay Manhattan.
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0SO8yy1tv9UR1cAdpJXNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LTkwMQRncHJpZAMwb1ZobElNMVNVbU1PUUx1cnNHT3VBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDNQRwcXN0cgNsYXJnZXN0IGdsYWNpZXIEcHFzdHJsAzE1BHFzdHJsAzM1BHF1ZXJ5A2xhcmdlc3QgZ2xhY2llciBjYWx2aW5nIGV2ZXIgZmlsbWVkBHRfc3RtcAMxNDI2MDQ1MDE1?p=largest+glacier+calving+ever+filmed&fr2=sa-gp-search&fr=yfp-t-901&fp=1
By: Jayne on March 10, 2015
at 8:38 PM
“. . . the horror of that . . .”
EXACTLY.
The vicious beauty of nature.
By: Mrs Fever on March 10, 2015
at 8:59 PM
I couldn’t use THAT video because I’m not feeling THAT fractured and destroyed. : ) Compared to that, I’m just a little crying baby…thank God.
By: Jayne on March 10, 2015
at 8:46 PM
One man’s ice cube is another woman’s glacial calving. Or something like that. 😉
By: Mrs Fever on March 10, 2015
at 9:01 PM
Breathtaking metaphor and I was so moved by this, I don’t even have the appropriate words. Thank you.
By: philosophoenix on March 11, 2015
at 9:35 PM
Wow. You’re either being sarcastic considering the arsenal of thoughts and words at your disposal OR you have been in these same waters, floating and breathing to quell the feeling of an indomitable change happening inside of you. I’m just able to put some words to it…days later.
By: Jayne on March 11, 2015
at 9:53 PM