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Free to Be

June 8, 2011
By poparteeb2 GOLD, Setauket, New York
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poparteeb2 GOLD, Setauket, New York
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“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

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I am a manta ray, powerful double-strokes propelling me…

I am a canoe, swift and fast down the river,

I am a paddleboat, merrily bobbing on a sunny day,

And I am the shark, fins piercing the water…

In the depths,

The blue timeless depths,

I take whatever shape I choose,

Free to be,

Anything except what I am on land.

My heart beats out the rhythm of my strokes,

I imagine as bubbles froth in the crystalline water,

And I am free to be,

Anything except what I am on land.

© Megan C., Nashville, TN

The author's comments:
I'm a swimmer, and this was one of the rare days when I really felt in tune with the water. I wasn't a human with clumsy arms and legs...rather I could be whatever the water wanted me to be.
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no.name. PLATINUM said...
on Jul. 1 2011 at 9:42 pm
no.name. PLATINUM, Ceres, California
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It makes me think of how it must feel to be a fish.