Honest Freedom (originally written August 25th, 2011)

I’m all wrapped up and ready to go. My cellophane a bit tattered and torn. Let this Dragon fly. Soon I will break out and be all mine. Soon I will come forth like a butterfly. Soon I will emerge into this new world and be free. I must remember not to look back once I leave. I must remember to keep my vision forward or I may lose sight of my goal. Let go, you binding wrappings, you blinding trappings. Let go, you anchor of doom. Be free you mighty wings of life and fly to places unknown. Be free to understand your fate, indeed, to reinvent it. Do not hesitate to pass the closed doors in life to find the open windows. Be who you are. Be what you are. Be all that you are. Be that you all the way in and all the way out. Do not be contrite to be you. Do not lament your uncommon spirit. Feel who you are and love you. Go to those places you never knew you could reach. Touch those hearts you never knew you could teach. Be in every moment a present consciousness that consumes the eating, breathing, speaking, loving, sleeping, sexing, nurturing, working, driving, stumbling, falling, ruinous universe we live in. Surrender your soul to spew your beauty and understanding where ever it is that your wings take you. Show your poise, your imbalance, your love, your anger. Do not apologize for who you are just be true to that inner self. Be authentic when no one is looking. Don’t tell yourself lies. Know thyself and to thyself be true. To thine own self be true and all other manner of pure decency will be the reality in your world. Show them the mystery and they too will follow to freedom.