Fragile girl
Fragile soul
Don’t know where
Or how to go
Losing my way
Stumbling again
There’s a crack in the sidewalk
Don’t fall in
Head up. Stand straight
Don’t buckle now
You have come all this way
Take just one step
Don’t look down
‘Cause the ground here
Just falls away
Fragile girl
Fragile soul
Don’t know where
Or how to go
Learning these same
Lessons again
There’re rocks in the water
Don’t dive in
Head up. Stand straight
Don’t buckle now
You have come all this way
Take just one step
Don’t look down
‘Cause the ground here
Just falls away
Fragile girl
Fragile soul
Don’t know where or how to go
Fragile girl
Fragile soul
You are lighter than you know
Song Origins:
This is a very special song to me. I wrote it one early Valentines Day morning in a hotel room in Little Rock, Arkansas. Or perhaps I should say that I held the pen and the song came through me onto the journal I had been writing in. I woke up that morning full of remorse for medicating away my fears. I lay there berating myself for drinking more wine than I had intended the previous night while working on a consulting project. A whole bottle, in fact. “Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!” my judgmental self ranted. Writing in my journal, I recalled that “thoughts are things” and decided to stop the poison of negativity and instead, write myself a love letter on this Valentines Day morning. I called it a love letter to my soul. For healing. For moving from fear to love. I wrote: “You are loved beyond measure. See and feel and know this love in every cell of your body – in the space between particles; in the waves of energy you emanate.” And then I had this thought: “We are all so fragile, aren’t we?” And I turned the page and penned Fragile.
Jen’s Favorite Line:
You are lighter than you know.
I later pondered why this word – lighter – came to me rather than other ones, such as stronger or safer or better.
Question to Contemplate:
In what ways am I lighter than I know?