I  sit and glaze into open space

As my mind drifts

To hear the sounds around me

Though not being a part of it all

To isolate oneself from the crowd

Like a ghost,  moving through figures

on a busy sidewalk

To pass a lost soul

Never really taking notice

To move through life

Without really living it

To sit upon freshly cut grass

Without thinking to respond

To the smell or the texture

This is what I have known

To open ones eyes to

the world around us

To take time to notice

the little things in life

To respond to our environment

Instead of just letting it

slowly drift by us

To reach beyond those

boundaries placed upon us

This is what I have known

To break out of those

Illusions of what is right or wrong

To vanish from our minds

those past issues that remain

to haunt us

To step forward and

not be afraid of who we are

To give ones heart freely,

without fear of rejection

To bring someone pleasure

not because it is asked of you,

But because you do it out of love

                         This is what I have known.

~Gary~