The Mystery of Me - No Mystery
My soul and my destiny were written in the stars,
on the moon and on the planets that aligned
on the day and the very hour and minute
I was born.
As a child I wondered why I was the way I was.
Why I liked to be alone, reading, always reading,
Why I did not feel I had to follow
what many other kids did “just because.”
Or why I was so very conscientious,
unwavering in habits and routines I dearly loved.
Why did my life destiny veer so unexpectedly
to include a second pathway -
one of relishing the many things in life
I find so fun!
And why is the shy Virgo self of my childhood
able now to be so outgoing?
Why am I so open
with nearly everyone I meet?
I feel myself to be completely authentic,
and I love that about myself.
I stumbled onto astrology and later – numerology
when I was in my teens.
It explained a lot about me
and also about others in my life.
Thinking back, I should have taken it more seriously!
Understanding relationships has so much to do
with understanding others’ charts as well.
All my life, I understood myself so very well.
Although to really know myself,
I did not need the chart or numbers -
it’s in being able to explain the “why”
of all the different parts of myself
that has given me a way to make my good friends realize
why they and I share such strong connections.
In college I took pyschological evaluations.
They supported what the Zodiac and numbers
said about me too.
Even the colors I am drawn to
are bright and happy like the sunshine.
What little melancholy is in me
I owe to my September birth,
for when that time draws nigh
I see the sunlight fading in the sky
and I become a bit more prone
to sigh. . .
June 14, 2018 For Caren Krutsinger's
An Inner Knowing, An Absolute Feeling, My Mystical Soul Self Poetry Contest
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