Please don’t give me lines
inside which I am to colour
for lines are limitations
on what I’ve yet to discover

Please don’t build walls
I will dismantle them
and use their stones
to lay a path to the very end

For I will not be contained
within the rights; the shoulds; the rules
I now live in freedom
from these exasperating tools

Tools which are used to tame us
to curb our wandering ways
to keep us from discovering
the truth within each day

They tell me how to live
what is perceived as right and wrong
I choose to live beyond them
to my own beat, my own song

They tell me how to love
and they have no idea
that to love unconditionally
removes all the fear

For a love unconditional
will accept and allow
not attempt to recreate
a clone of others now

I choose to live my life
in the freedom of my truth
with no shackles of judgement
and no one else’s golden rules

I do not live in fear
of repercussions for my choice
for in free will I believe
and in life and love rejoice

Trish Johnston © 14^th February 2019