Let your soul breathe

with the expansion

of freedom.

Let it stretch endlessly

in every direction

as it rises

to find its place.

Let your heart open

with that terrifying wonder,

open and offer itself,

giving rebelliously

after being

so tightly bound.

Let your spirit dance

like beams of light

on water.

Not a gentle lake~

Oh Never!

But with unbridled

ferocity,

as if the sun were shining

on rioting waves

of the ocean storm

that is your

Heart.

Shelly Aspenson