Walking the Deck

Walking the deck for you
I noticed the wood beneath my feet 
old boards
I stretch myself 
 as far as the horizon
Trying to expand myself for you

You ask so much of me
You push my boundaries beyond my boundaries
You demand on command 
of me as if I were a child

Yes,do .... stretch me and decrease me by making me thin
I am trying to be bold in your presence
Trying to remember where I came from 
and all that I believe in -for you

I will serve you like a slave
I will work for you like a child slave because I love you

The only light I know is the light I've seen
Driving through Forest of Bent trees where the sand and the wind have altered all to be so unusual and exquisite 
I can't stop thinking of wind altering trees

In the light ....of nature
so  bent by wind and storm
I'm humbled 
 lifted and joyful 
amazed 
and here nothing you do to me 
will ever stop my... being happy

You may be cruel but I will be bigger
a lioness of bent branches rising to the sky
roaring past you 
You may think You are bold in your cruelness

You think ownership of me gives you the right?

But I have the forest and I have the fluorescent red berries 
that he fought to retrieve for me 
and I will never forget what it is to be out here
in air and sky and feel sand fall through my fingers

A free child just enjoying the beauty of the world around me
 Gathering up bright berries of color to deck my halls


I remember that nature and life can be turned simple
by a tree
engaged by a leaf
romanced by a  puddle
spoken to by breeze
All you have to really do is go out there and gather up 
what is offered

Given without price

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