SPT-Layers

The earth has been completely blanketed in white.

I had a beautiful drive to work, lake effect snow

falling, trees flocked white.

It was pure beauty.

But it also came with a price.

Some of the weaker

branches

crumbled

under the weight.

The street

filled with a beautiful

white blanket

was also filled with

the skeletal remains

of tree branches that

just couldn't

KEEP UP.

Branches that were

already broken,

branches that were

weaker than the others,

branches that fell

because of other falling

branches.

VULNERABLE

Unable to hold

up the burden.

If I could only

strip

away

these layers.

Layers of

obligations,

emotions,

doubt,

stress,

anxiety,

weight,

anger,

fear,

pain....

Would the core of me,

bare

without the layers

covering up,

burdening,

weighing down,

be able to hold me up.

Would

my core

hold up

as those layers

fall softly

upon it's strength?