I am currently on the
other side of who I know
myself to be, across
the electric-blue creek
swollen with spring's
drenching rains.

I'm in a place where
sunlight flickers like
a bulb about
to blow. About to
blow, that's me.

So let me sit on mossy
earth, drag my bare
feet in cool flowing
water, lean against
the trunk of a
pine-sap smelling
tree and just be.

Give me time
alone, time to
breathe, to close
my eyes and be
responsible for
nobody, for nothing,
just me.

by Patricia Lay-Dorsey
May 16, 2008

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