New Life

“It’s in the shelter of each other that people live

and thrive and have hope”……(Author Unknown)

To begin again. To wipe the slate clean – forgetting

Those things that happened or didn’t happen

Those things that strangled his thought process

Who are they to dictate how he lives and breathes and

Wants.

We had to march in place for a while….boots were heavy,

Weighing us down, gloominess sucking up all the air

Breathing shallow – almost lifeless trying to hold on to

Each other and just a glimmer of hope……

Never seeing a way out – Stuck in darkness – praying

My world of darkness just got a lot brighter

My world, a rainbow of happiness, of possibilities

Not accepting the negativity that keeps trying to press on me.

That crazy spirit of gloom – a life going nowhere – stagnant.

Get thee behind me Satan!!

Holding my face up towards the sun – feeling the glow

Spreading throughout my being….I’m alive again

Never going to give way to oppressive thoughts/

behavior……Gonna  dance a while, gonna sing out

Loud, gonna run and play….. it’s springtime in my soul.

“Let me fly away with you”

He got so use to the darkness that he almost couldn’t come

Out when the door opened. Was it safe to move forward?

A new dimension, a new way of thinking, a new way

Of moving about. Stepping out timidly at first….gaining

Momentum, breaking into a trot – gotta get moving and

Suddenly he’s running without a need to respect time

All time is his now….so many possibilities….so much

To be thankful for

A new found freedom. The mental chains falling away

Burdens lifted.

“It’s a new life, it’s a new day, it’s a new world and I’m feeling good!” (Nina Simone)