I need to walk...

I need to walk that thin ledge;
Even as fear runs deep as that canyon;
I know not, where lies the edge
But I need to walk, to know the threshold
I may stagger, stumble, even slip
but I learn to shed my load
When I have to walk
Each step, a milestone, to have passed the past
I need to look ahead, till I reach the end-
Around the bend
To the drop off, which looks to the horizon?

I need to jump, to make that plunge –
From the earth, to let lose those strings –
that  bound me in love and pain –
I need to free myself  from that abyss
Even as I look down,
The plunge, as bottomless
But I need to jump
To float, to fly, to learn to let go
I may tear in two,
Or lie as shreds
But I will rise anew
From the earth to the ether-
 Like  the becoming
Of a bird from a fledgling –
To the whole, a new being!