Do you know joy?
I asked myself
In the back seat of
our honda oddessy
Have you held out your hand
And let her guide you?
I looked out the window
treesandrocksandmountains
Pass me by at 75 miles per hour
But my thoughts slow down;
And I think about the night before
I stand at the water’s edge
As the tide paints my toes
With glistening salt
I watch my sister and
Her best friend
Splash each other with the waves
As the sunset loveingly draped us in a
rose gold cloak
A cloak so soft, so gentle, so warm that
I could feel it in my bones
I could feel it in my heart
This is my joy
It’s my turn to paint the ocean
To leave my mark
Until I return
I am bursting with its warmth
that my body cannot hold it anymore
The ocean water
Flows through my veins
Pulses through my heart
and then
It spills from my eyes
My tears are the color of my soul;
Red yellow green blue
And everything in between
This is my joy
If the warmth of this cloak
Wrapped so lovingly around me
Is ripped apart from my body
Exposing me to hurricanes, floods, tornados
Let it have my clothes
My food, my shelter,
Let it blow away
But
no one, no force
Nothing on this earth or beyond
can tame what’s inside
Nothing can take
My joy, my joy my joy
Grace's Space 