I am me.

I am me

I can’t live in the dark

I need the light

I am not a moth

      Who will find the light

And die

I am not Icarus

  I don’t want to fly

too close

        To the sun

But I am not a bear

Hibernating through

       a permanent winter

I am also not a wall flower

    Indistinguishable

         from wallpaper

Or a cockroach

   Scuttling in the shadows

Or a spider trying to

       build a place to live

Or hide under a rock

in a long forgotten corner

But once in the light

Will I become target practice?

Will I get burnt?

Will you stop and glare?

Turn away and ignore me

  Will I be blamed for

The milk going sour

The price of bread

  The fading of the curtains

The ills of human kind

Will my life be Sisyphus like?

    Pushing my burden up the hill

towards the light

   Just to see myself

      back at the bottom

Burden intact

Condemned to a life

Without change

I need to be able to

walk and think

     Love and hate

smile and laugh

and      breathe and live

I have a lifetime

    Of success and failure

Of triumph and sorrow

      Of good and bad

Of right and wrong

     I am human

I   am real

I am me…

@theozgreenman

5March2023