Romancing My Truth

I looked outside myself

for my sanity

For long labored eons

I ran

Away from me

Or perhaps toward some

one, some kind of

clan

Secretly studying the ways

of others

Executing my moves with

stellar stealth

Yet, I kept coming back

to the awareness

I am me,

no one

else

One day of dark night

I knew my

hard birthed

truth

Returning to the

self I was

in my

wooded youth

I found myself by the

banks of a stream

Flowing and

playing with the

stones

Away from the world's

pain, from

her maladies and

moans

I was the water

flowing

and the dragonflies

dancing

My truth I am now

cultivating

clarifying and

romancing

I am all things and

none of them

in the same moment

of magic

I am the peace, the

calm, the

intuitive me

Peace borne from the

tragic

Search for a woman

walking with

me on my path

through many lived

lives

I have been a mother

a daughter

a lover...a hater

Someone's

wife

Labels and limitations

attached to all of

the

above

None of them

honoring

my newly nuanced

self love

The only label I

agree to

don

Is the one I wear

and now have

on

I am Me

aside from that.....I am

happily and honestly

Label Free