Feet dangling
Playing in the
streams of life
Giggling like a
school girl at a never ending slumber party
Dancing to music
piped in from Freedom’s Broadcasting Network
And feeling lovely about me
After a lifetime of
being trained
How to be the perfect
women
How to pretend
How to submit
How to look the other
way
How to hold it
together
While feeling like
the crazy part of the glue
Watching all of my dreams go floating out the
door
I.found.me
I was crumpled up and
tossed behind
Life’s wastebasket
A half written to do
list
An unfinished poem
A check mark next to
a mundane chore
A note asking for
more
There I was
You picked me up and
smoothed
My crinkled life
And began deciphering
the cryptic messages of my heart
You Abba explained my
own pain to me
In ways I could have
never understood
You taught me how my
mind worked
And insisted that
despite the many
Blows that I suffered
to my emotional cortex
I still functioned
well
You said I was whole
Long before I
understood what wholeness was
And when the pipe burst
in my heart
And I could no longer
contain my emotions
You held me
And all of my liquid
pain
At night you sang a
lullaby to my spirit
That spoke directly
to each day of my life
From birth till now
You remembered what I
had forgotten
Or refused to acknowledge
You showed me that
pain ignored
Will devour your soul
And become the
monster inside of you
That you see in
others
You Daddy G
Gave me my first
nickname of honor
You called me
“Princess”
And laced me with
your love
You took me back home
To the foreign land
from which I hail
A place called “Innocence”
You said that I was
still
A native and would
forever be so in Your eyes
We sat on the side of
a mountain
And skipped wishes
across the lake
As the sun set in
sapphire hues
You gave me a stern
directive
With more love than I
could gather in a lifetime
“Live and Be Free!”
And showed me my
reflection in the mirror
Of your Glory
For the first time in
my life
I saw radiance
And it was coming
from under my skin
Beauty rested in my
eyes
And honor (which
comes from being your very own)
Adorned my quaff
Like a diamond
studded crown
You lifted me
High into the heavens
And baptized me
In eternity
Then placed me gently
back in my today
With a new heart
And a restored mind
Nothing missing
Nothing broken
Forever gifts
From
Adoni…
BFP (c)
