I have wandered seeking wonder

Art credit - Beverly Branch, Faith

I have wandered
seeking wonder,
leaving Home, 

                    shunning comfort,
roaming into
the Unknown.

Who I’ve been,
the place I’m in,
I haven’t liked; 

                    didn’t know
quite where to go,
but I knew why…

Hope is
just a princess
in a fairytale; 

                    nobody 
is saving me 
except myself.

Realizing
only I 
was stopping me, 

                    I’ve gone on to 
rendezvous 
with Who I’ll Be…

turned my back
to pasts that 
I won’t let define me… 

                    spurned the masks
behind which 
I’ve been shyly hiding.

Pausing, for
a moment more,
on the cusp, 

                    trusting who I
am inside
to be enough,

gazing up,
amazed,
and with an opened mind, 

                    recognizing
what’s been mine
all the time,

while I wandered
into wonder,
hazily,

                    taking only
bravery 
and faith with me.

Lee DeNoya - Taos 2021