Out in the open here
There’s just so much sky
Brilliant and blue
Streaked with white
And if you came to me today
And asked me to tell you
All my secrets
Sitting here with a window wide
I would…
Staring at the reflection of the world
beyond
I look at my eyes in the pool of water
Collected from rain that fell from
above
Pieces of infinity in what I see…
swimming in me…
I’m no longer afraid
Of the way my life is heading
So much control and yet so little it
seems
I have the handles and yet
This bicycle steers itself
Down this sweeping hill
I watch the sky expand
As the grass blows
My face feeling the force of gravity
As I give in to the momentum
And let the Earth just carry me
As it turns for a while
Where will I end up?
Is it where I’ve always wanted
Or someplace totally new
Or is it both…
I touch the surface of the water with
my finger
And watch the ripples
Concentric circles ringing through the
blue
Like the sky in my eyes
To be able to cause such a reaction
With one simple finger
And yet to be just one person
One man in a multitude of billions
One voice in a chorus of sound
It’s freeing to know that I am who I
am
That I can be whoever I choose
And in whatever I do, I will still
make an impact
Yet in the way things work
My life can be over in a blink
But it would have seemed an eternity
to me
So let me sit here and stretch out
Let me close my eyes
Imagining the sky in my hands
Even when I’m inside
There’s so much of it
We are all so small
Just pieces of infinity
And yet it covers us all
My secrets seem to mean nothing
And yet they are my clouds
Causing ripples…
