By birth or by thought or by bitten experience
My mind is my own , I wander apart
from that happy herd of settled lives
This person a puzzle a poet a stranger
I have prayed it were otherwise
I have aspired for truth beauty beyond
The fetters of my limitation
But strangely in these confines
i find an inner freedom an emerging joy.
For me let it be my place to be a sayer of joyous yes
In awe to to dance my love through the spring and summer
To carry this warmth into the dead of winter
To cry out to the earth with a grateful song