I lay on my back on the grass.

The sky stares in return.

Neither of us seem to be able to come to conclusion about the other.

Just quiet regard.

Wind, birds, and other sounds distant passing guests.

Leaving the two of us in a silent stare down.

***

It used to scare me as a little girl.

Far too big and imposing.

A realm I had no part in existing in.

Opposite of the comfort I seek to be enclosed in that smelled of more earthy tones.

I did not even want such a large expanse in view.

But I was older now and it was just me and it laid bare.

***

I decide to make the first move and move into the open blue.

With no hesitation it invites me inside.

The great expanse surrounds me until it is all my eyes can comprehend.

Yet the grass lawn is still up against my back even if I cannot see it.

When the open blue seems ready to swallow me, all I have to do is feel the cool of the ground to know I am safe.

A bridge between where I have been and where I am going.

***

I think I know why the open blue regarded me with such hesitation.

It was confusion for my own reaction.

It was always there and will always be.

A part of my world that could not exist without it.

My fear a foreign concept for it but not the first time seeing it.

For I had existed within it the entire time.