I Travel Alone

I travel alone down this narrow path
Three shadows accompanying me.

The one to my left walks heavy and careful, never out of line;
Molded and shaped by the church and it’s wishes, perfected slowly over time.

The second slightly dimmer and not so exact has a lighter, happier step;
Dreams and aspirations animated by education stimulate its pace a bit.

The third shilouette hardly noticed at all doesn’t walk but soars through the wind—
Held by nothing predetermined or socially correct, or viewed as an absolute sin.

Free. To express, to think and to believe—
To live and to be, ONLY me!

I travel alone down this narrow path but alas,
Three shadows accompany me.

-9/20/98