Run Roar Scream Giggle… So You Know You Can Be Free

To The Girl Who Is Trying To Find Home In This World.

Photo by todd kent on Unsplash

Run…!
Till your feet go numb
Run …
So your heart finds a home.

Run to the sun
Catch the sun
Eat it up
Glow!

Go…!
Go be a glow-worm
In the woods
Where the crickets creak.

Then run to the river
Dive in
Swim in the rapids
Scream!

Swim with the sharks!
With the star-fish…
With the dolphins…
Swim!

Go…
Lie in a bed of anemones
Get tangled up in sea-weeds
Go play hide-and-seek …
In the forgotten ship-wrecks and forsaken debris… Go!

Float-in with the tide on to the beach
Be lazy on the sand
Lie in the sand … Till the sun goes down
And the moon begins to peek.

Run across the beach.
Run back home.
Skip…!
Fall.
Graze your knee,
Let your hair get caught up in the wind.

Do a back-flip!
Giggle…
Roar!
Gloat!

Run till your heart runs out
Run so your heart finds home
Run…
So your heart builds its own home
Run till you call the world your own.

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