I Am a Different Girl

my life has not turned out as imagined the biggest accomplishment has been writing though we have had a long struggle been challenged by death and sorrow the chant of the dead and forgotten all the chains of the past . . . for me the most important thing is tranquility want to be as a tree rooted deep into the earth or as water pouring into a vase or sliding over smooth river rocks . . . if I could have changed my past- would have but it was all written in the book of time and what is written will be so this girl writes the shades of her emotions cannot afford to travel so I journey in imagination and have gone to amazing places written on white my philosophy on life- is to never become what I hate no matter what is done by taking up the hurt in my soul and using that emotion to create poetry . . . . is there a higher power called God? oh, not certain that angels walk among us but to think that my beloved are not waiting in a nirvana is unfathomable so I must believe the fairy tale . . . oh embrace this vers libre from my pen for this poetry thing is not just an idle past time but art that I create- but even more important is that when taking up a pen I am a different girl . . . _________________________________ January 4, 2019 Poetry/Free Verse/I am a different girl Copyright Protected, ID 19-1100-964 -02 All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym. Written for the contest, Free Verse Style sponsor, Emile Pinet Sixth Place