To Know Me...
Knowing me may not be an easy task.
I am not like any I have really met.
My upbringing was middle-class, white, democratic.
My parents were hard-working, loving-
struggling through their own metamorphosis of life.
I was considered the”black sheep”.
Not quite a rule follower, not quite a raucous rebel.
Somewhere “in-between”.
I broke ties with my siblings long ago-
toxicity breeds toxcity.
I chose independance and peace.
My deep relationships were few,
I find most people, still, very concrete.
I value free thinking, challenge.
Question authority, yet be respectful.
Accept all cultures/people and build knowledge.
Value the independance, but build on it.
I have had a problem with giving, I think.
I have worked diligently and given most away.
As I age, I don’t necessarily see that as virtuous.
I have been both naive and trusting.
Intolerably trusting.
Independance is clearly a safe space.
I do not have monetary wealth.
I live month to month.
I have succeeded in student loan payments,
and completed debt left to me by “partners”.
I feel those burdens lifted.
Independace breathes freedom and grit.
I have great accomplishments.
My children, my students, my home.
My business kisses my creative soul.
I value historic homes and artifacts.
I live for Art in both form and function.
Independance marries the wind.
My spiritual side is unusual to most.
I have yet to find my tribe.
I strive for that now more than ever.
It is not so much a need to understand,
as it is a need to fufill all I can.
Independance is not a negative in a relationship.
I think it breeds mutual growth.
What do I know?
I write as a catharsis, I find it grounding.
I see things differently as I age.
I would have been more wary of relationships,
probably people in general to be honest.
I really was not all that “aware”, I thought I was.
Silence brings independance to universal understanding.
My current hopes lie in finding my tribe.
Abundance with antique ventures/writing
will enable huge, positive change.
I am hoping for my own metamorphosis
forward to discover all of who I am.
Manifestation of good intent brings positive change.
Be well, more forward and strive to be the best version of self,
Love, Brooklyn