Free to breathe

Excuse me for existing

Excuse me for taking up space

Did it get your goat up

That I wanted to find my own place

And express my own emotions

That I felt the desire

To act upon visions and feelings

Deep in my heart

That I wanted to feel the full brunt of life

Or be set apart

In a place designed for me

Sometimes it is so painful

To feel myself

Tied up in all of these tangles

You want me to be a part of

For my soul is a free spirit

It needs the clear air

And its awful so say

But sometimes

I just don’t want to care

For the mess you got yourself in

And while I feel your pain

I suffer enough from my own

When I make mistaken choices

That lead me so far from home

When oh when did it become such an offence

For me to feel and be

Sad or excited

Undecided or confused

Angry or unfree

For as someone who seeks

Only to flow with the pulse of life

I feel flowing through me

It hurts to be caged

By conditions that marr

The expression of a soul’s beauty

Which can only come

From embracing a deeper truth of being

That just longs to breathe

Its own breath

Feel it own radiance

Shining free