Romance

I took a cautious step

beyond the edge

I didn’t fall

I took another, checked my feet

They still stood strong

I jumped, I leaped

and next I’ll fly

For nothing is forbidden anymore

I made a world

I made it in my mind

I gave the sky a magic, stained glass blue

I used high clouds to mark its great expanse

I made a window into it for you

If you will join me

we can let our feet

be coated in the sun-warmed sand

and climb the driftwood, where it leans

above the rising tides

and revel in life’s interlocking, overlapping swirls

the waves, the wood, the sky

the shifting windows into worlds . . . 

I won’t believe a voice that says

my life course is constrained

To me belongs my mind

and all the pathways it contains.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 1, 2012