branches are sprouting out of my heart and ripping through my rib cage
my bones are shattering as I shiver from the growth
it's all so sudden, I feel like someone's squeezed me like a squeaky toy with it eyes popping out of its sockets
except they're no longer attached and they're hurtling through space at a trillion light years per second
I know I'm here to break my heart open as wide as I can so let me carve it into the bark so you can taste the sap
I'm a hall of mirrors with many twisted reflections
I'm the shattered mirror on your bathroom wall
They call me Narcissus
I look into the river and fall in love with the reflection in the shimmering water
I go to kiss it
and my shadow falls around it
My vision blurs and it goes out of focus
Warm lips Ice cold water
Stretching can be painful, but in Yoga, we are taught it is only a sensation. It is Prana, or life force energy. It is growth. As long as you continue to breathe, without holding onto thought... you can breathe in the Prana and allow it to energize you. If the state of focus is broken, you may find yourself on the floor, your ego shattered. But this is your practice. You are not growing if you are worrying about what others think about you falling. You are also not growing if you are judging others for falling. So breathe. Stretch. Get up, and grow.