Singing My Own Song

I wrote a feature entitled Journal Keeping - Another Path to Self Healing several years ago. Whereas dream journaling and personal journaling can be healing for the writer, poetry's potential to comfort both the author and its readers may be even more empowering. The author of our featured poem is Starfire. Starfire is an artistan, Reiki practitioner, and published author. She told me about one night when she was unable to sleep. She climbed out of bed and took pen in hand during the wee hours of the morning and wrote this poem. Also a sufferer of RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), Starfire manages her pain with an openess toward learning about various healing arts. When she read this poem outloud to me I wished it to be shared with my readers. She kindly agreed to let me publish it here on my healing site. Thank you Starfire!

I want to sing my OWN song.
I want to sing it well.
I want to dance my OWN dance;
Dance the whole night through.
Until first light.
Watch the sun announce the
Beginning of a new day;
Rejoice in the mystery of it.
I want to grab ahold of life,
As if it were a tree
In full bloom;
Shake it a bit,
Letting the blossoms
Fall upon my head;
Feeling their silkiness
Caress my face.
Feel the earth beneath
My bare feet.
Run in and out of the waves
The ups and downs that life
Presents; the adventures, the
Sorrows, the joys, ALL OF IT
I want to embrace it all.
I want to live my life with no regrets
Leaving no stone unturned.
Yes, I want to sing my own song well,
With a heart full of joy
Spilling over onto every life I touch.
Experience the woods ablaze with
The mosaic of the reds and golds of Autumn,
And the breath-taking beauty of the Sun
Slipping below the horizon.
I want to bask in the afterglow
Until the last sigh.