exhale

I've never read the book nor seen the movie, but as I left work yesterday, the phrase "waiting to exhale" came to my mind. It brought tears to my eyes as I realized that yes, in a lot of ways this has been the story of my experience for the past several months. It has been a wonderful time of learning and growing, but not without pain or difficulty. I feel very unsettled, not so much in who I am, but in many of the aspects of my life. I'm driven to do many things, but yet some of those things probably get in the way of other desires that I have. I'm ready to not feel like a tent blowing in the breeze, none of its pegs nailed down. I have a few simple desires that lie unfulfilled. So I wait...

puzzle pieces,
scattered on the floor.
each beautiful in their own respect,
but all a part of something greater.
one must see the pieces for the whole,
to take them on, putting them together.
i will pick up my pieces;
who will see them as the big picture?