Human Being

Human Being

by dan ankers

Sign me up for all the feelings

This world unwrapped a human being

Unfurled like a ribbon, whirling through the skies

as it were

up so high

up so dangerously high

though fearless

like a cloud

no

not tethered

neither controlled, nor controlling

of or by the weather

I am substance

I am better

I am not ‘no thing’

not ever

I am Alive

I strive

I contrive

I sit and I dance

I chance

I work

I ponder

of the earth and heaven

bound

by no one

not at all

confounded yet ever enterprising

and surprising myself

very loudly

with my thoughts

I chain them

I bind them

one by

one

though I see

as they float from me…

the are me

free