whatever free means
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oh lord i may believe in
don't let me be afraid
of things that will not hurt me
yet ripen me by day
let me await the times ahead
like i wait for the summer
let me dance among my infancy
in which i have discovered
let me be at peace with change
with the way the water flows
as the letters of my past return
with sand between my toes
let me cleanse my hair with lake water
as reckless as i wish to be
let me wash away my features
with past ancestors algae
and let my life feel as infinite
as the horizon forever blue
unafraid of fellow species
and what their stings will do
i don't know who i ask this of
but what is not beyond me
is my need to come and go like waves
my longing to be free