When my mind split open

A fault line was revealed

I saw the rift

And saw weakness

Something broken in need of fixing

To pull the two halves back together closing the space between

Returning to the way I was

But not all the strength in the world

Not all the work and planning

Can move the earth back together once it has decided to split

It will never be as it was

A fault line engraved so deep underneath the shine of my surface

A rocky, dark abys

That transformed into my greatest gift

I had to split in order to grow

I had to break to expand my space

To not close the darkness

But build over it

Instead of closing space to return to the original size of what I was

I was expanding

Filling the space that had been given to me

Not closing it once again

To not return to who I was

But forced to mine my chasm

Discovering the gold and jewels that lay beneath its surface

Treasure I would never have known

Unless there was a quake that led to my fault line

My fault line that became my lifeline.

                                                                                                            By: Emily Rice