I. AM. FREE.

Changing, moving, trading,

Ever-shifting.

This is my life now.

New places to see,

New people to meet,

New food to taste,

New things to experience.

The euforia gets into my brain,

It is intoxicating,

Addicting.

It is a heartache I long to feel again, and again, and again.

The exhaustion is not important,

I’ll run and I’ll sing along.

Everything is new:

The plants, the houses, the way they speak to me,

It is exciting, I can’t wait to go downtown.

There are hills everywhere I look,

I want to go to the highest and scream to the world:

I AM FREE, COME WITH ME!

Come with me to these new places to see,

Come with me to these new people to meet,

Come with me to these new food to taste,

Come with me to these new things to experience!

Feel the adrenaline, the exhilaration burning through your lungs,

Into your brain and then your heart.

Feel the caterpillars turning into butterflies inside you.

Feel the wind brushing your skin, and hair back,

Feel it drying the sweat from when you ran to the hilltop,

Nonstop,

The cobblestones passing like a blur beneath your feet,

People wave back to you as you laugh,

As the light from your smile shines on them,

You make their day better as you did mine.

You came with me.

You are free.

Now it’s time to say goodbye.

For I am going to someplace new,

And you will too.