I Am Alive...

Are you ever stirred to write your thoughts in poetry? Do you ever gaze from a window and all at once become full of some message or other?

I have loved poetry since childhood, melodic or otherwise. This poem, I Am Alive, is about reawakening from the zombie like state life can become, it's about taking responsibility for the life you have been given and living it to the full. It's about becoming aware of who you are, your purpose and the path created by you, not by others...

And so the world goes on, sometimes blindly with no vision of a future
And we follow without knowledge, without a thought
Then wonder in amazement why we have no recollection of how we got here

And should we be so mindless to continue in this way, no questions asked
We have no reason to complain, no one to blame
No finger pointing, or name calling or cries of painful sorrow

For we must stop to see the pathway, wide eyed and with unfaltering alertness
For we must listen, ears fully engaged, digesting information, taking action
And only then, only then, can we begin to say 'I am alive'

Be Confident enough to do things your way, be Assertive enough to tell others why and be Kind enough to Empower others to find their path too...

YvonneB