Growing Up

I am fully protected
by the council I elected.
By myself I am selected.
There is no time to be rejected.

This is my new way to be.
I am not lost. I’m one that can see.
Now that I am fully awake,
I can play and not let my heart break.

Let me rejoice in the life that I see,
in my body, in the choices, in being me.
With my eyes open wide and my spirit awake,
what a joy to be here,
what a life I can make.

And now through the eyes of an angel I see
what before was hidden from me.

The angle is wider.
The future is brighter.
And when I get sidetracked,
I know to look higher.

At last I am free.
There’s a third way to see,
a way through the maze
that was hidden from me.

I lift myself up to a new point of view:
in it my “I” is complete,
and there’s no need in the “you.”

To the unknown I will now go.
I have myself; this much I know.
I’m not afraid of what may be.
Let the unknown contend with me.