Being Man

Baptized by the waters of life in Monterey Bay.

Santa Cruz, California

(photo by Art Durand Photography)

Being Man

10/30/10

A key has turned inside

to long buried treasure chest

holding sacred scrolls of transformation,

it has taken a lifetime

of digging through doubts, fears,

desires to be fully accepted,

heralded, for my unique characteristics

while society, peer pressure, shaped

creating less than authentic me,

and it's been selfish unraveling

that's revealed 'robes of distortion',

personas, my judgmental perfectionist tendency,

thoughts 'I am an island.',

many layers hiding heart, soul,

believing such until broken asunder

because my spirit refuses defeat,

will not die until expressed

in it's totality this lifespan,

finally joining great ancestral lineage

serving magnificently while being man.