Free to Be...

~ Free to Be ~

Most of my life

I had to hide my feelings

Cry my feelings,

Inside my feelings

Fearing the judgment of critics

Imagined

Who were they to judge me

Yet I cringed

And I ducked,

Hiding from myself

Until I lost myself

Trying to live for others

As I hid the true me

Who I wanted to be...

Over time,

I truly disappeared

Hiding in the shadows in

The bottom of a bottle,

In the arms of men

And in the

Maze of cobwebs

Inside my head

No longer fearing

The naysayers and the haters

Those who chose

To bark at the moon,

Pointing fingers and

Spreading gloom

Just let me be

Free

To be me

I am who i am

No more, no less

Scrambling to live my life

With a plan, His plan

Not your plan,

Not even my own

I emerged from the shadows,

Gloriously!

Yes, it took a long time

And I love the real me

The one He revealed

I won't

I can't

I said, I will not

And I cannot...

I refuse to be

Chased back to a place

Where

I can no longer be

Free

To be, me

Who are you to judge me?