Open to life

as children do when
their parents dress them in
constricting cloth of what is proper
and they tear it off to reveal
their glorious truth which is
naked and exposed
In their natural, sensitive state
they run out into the open field
up over the mountains
kiss the sky
skip over the moon
Laughing little leprechauns
they wink, click their heels
slide down the rainbow
while never leaving the backyard
Freedom is within
Every child knows it and you
who were once a child
still are a child in waiting
for that moment
when Mommy and Daddy’s layers
can be stripped away
in favour of
Naked
Exposed
Natural
Truth