Aspiration
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I dream of nothing more than this: to be completely alive, to hurl myself into each vibrant moment with all my heart and mind and soul.
I want to feel starlight crackling down my nerves, and salty oceans pulsing through my veins. I want to hear the grass laughing as I walk bare footed through the morning dew.
I want to cry at the softness of skin and fur, and to be startled by the depth of eyes. I want to shiver at the sweetness of bird calls and to feel the echo of spoken words in every cell of my body.
I want to lose all the labels and stories and maps, all that classifies and judges, anything that says no, or can’t, or should, anything that separates or shrinks back.
I aspire to nothing more. I will settle for nothing less.



Amen, Amen.