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 Within this 
Chrysalis of 
Moonlight,
Hope knits 
Silver wings,
Prepares 
Broken things 
To fly 

#Poetry 
 Seems fine as it, is to my ear, at least.

There is a dreamlike quality to this one, @Michelle .  A chrysalis is what the immature creature creates around itself.   Making one of moonlight suggests night-time contemplation.  A preparation in meditation of the damaged psyche - perhaps one that has not been permitted to develop fully - to take flight as it should.  The sense is that it has been earthbound, but that this is not its real nature.  Maybe it is the wings themselves that were broken; now created anew that the person might be able "to fly" at last.