You Set Me Free

I can float on the wind
yet still feel
the grass beneath my feet.
I can touch a butterfly’s wing
and listen to its heartbeat.
I can laugh,
I can dance,
I can sing.
And at day’s end,
when in that shadow,
I can shine light.

I can send my heart
to the top of the highest mountain.
And then, as time is no longer linear
it releases me,
to swim in oceans
and find unexplored islands
and gaze upwards and around
to watch the world, as it began
then died,
then began again.

I can see newborn stars
bursting
with the glory of their creation.
I can see microcosms within macrocosms
and colours undreamed of.
I can hear music of the spheres
and almost taste its sublime sweetness.
I can see nothing
and yet I see everything.

I was static
But now I know I have grown,
through a million sighs
and rivers of tears,
through pain so intense
it was beautiful.
Through scalding truth
that left me raw
and half-dead.
But then I rose again.

When you said ‘goodbye’
you set me free.