Is she the scared child
who climbs a high tree to escape and feel safe?
Is she the fearful girl
with downcast eyes who asks permission?
Is she the young maiden
who seeks to please to hold the peace?
Or has she finally remembered?
Has she remembered
that she has always been safe?
Has she remembered
that she needs no one's approval, but her own?
Has she remembered that she
is free to express, to dance, to play, to simply be?
Yes, she is me.
Remembering.
And she is free.
The darkness
never held you.
You dance under open skies!
In the darkness,
only starlight as her guide,
no one to watch her,
no cause to shrink or hide.
Music in her ears,
no other human sound,
she spins, she jumps, she twirls,
her feet kissing the ground.
not always knowing
where to go,
I follow my soul,
I hear her voice.
To shrink or expand
is a choice.
So upwards and onwards
I will go.
Fall or rise,
I'll grow into flow.
Why not
open up?
Why not
embrace life
with all its pain
and all its joy?
Tread through
the murky waters,
swim through
the dark unknown,
then emerge
through the light
with a gasp
and a scream,
having come
through this life,
through darkness
reborn!
