Once I went places just to take pictures
of people doing what people will do
Just to capture the moment in the life
of people as the lived their lives never knowing
never caring that I was capturing their moment
Then one day I left my camera
Stopped capturing moments in the lives of people
Gagged my soul,
told it that I could no longer listen to its voice
because society said I must be responsible,
Must climb its ladder,
must strive to earn more,
So I could spend more
So I could be judged a success by what I had
and not for what I could create
And so my soul withered,
Stifled and silenced
It almost forgot how to speak its joy
Till one day I listened to another soul
Speaking its truth,
reminding mine that it needed its voice
it it were not to starve and die
It needed to shout, to sing, to cry and laugh
It did not care what voice I granted it
Just so it had a voice once again and
could grow and shine, to live once more
written 2/2003
