

the first time i listened
i moved through spaces
untouched by sound or fear
i want to discern myself
before anything or anyone near
how i traverse this field
is by being at peace as i appear.
KEY WORD: Listen


the first time i focused
i found depth where i was
unable to see through before
i walk through light and dark
just so i can make it through
perhaps all i needed to do
was adjust my reality and
see what is true.
KEY WORD: Focus


the first time i held myself
i became real to the world around me
i held the world in my own bare hands
in order to stop disappearing
acceptance isn't wholly easy to do
but so i can be present i did it for me
so that now i can see you.
KEY WORD: Hold


the first time i paused
i learned on my own how to move
in piece by peace
my motion through stillness
was the purest form to me
so i can stop and see the world
in order to be free.
KEY WORD: Pause


the first time i felt anything
i didn't break, i didn't sneer
i believed in what was real
just so the universe around could
experience it through me and feel
but now that i feel everything
i decided to stay and grasp my wing.
KEY WORD: Feel


the first time i breathed on my own
i knew that i felt completely alive
alive enough to make it by
alive enough to make it thrive
now i drifted through these fields of drought
my belief was no longer hidden
casted off by shadows of doubt.
KEY WORD: Breathe


the first time i faced myself
i changed through and through
now that i've opened my wings
the old me isn't of any use
the truest way to see me was by a mirror
i may mourn the past of what once was
but now my mind and eyes are clearer.
KEY WORD: Become
