06 Personal Writing Examples
I am here in the midst of many selves
each one gasping, each one dying to be.
The world says choose, demands pick one,
but I cannot.
I am larger than a single dream,
made of hope and contradiction,
shaped by longing and possibility.
I have been told to find one path,
to walk it straight and sure.
But my feet wander,
my spirit roams,
and I discover that each step
is a prayer to the uncertain.
Maybe being lost is only the body's way
of welcoming a new.
I have learned to hold myself tenderly
on days when my heart flickers and folds,
to forgive the answers,
to love the many questions.
My spirit grows wild and restless,
refusing to be caged by a single name.
I cannot be one thing.
I am many.
So I stand here in the presence of now
feeling the layered selves press close.
I give them names, songs, colors,
I give them permission.
For what is life if not the grand dance
of all we dare to be
before time carries us away
and names us whole.