FREEDOM  FROM 

WITHIN ONESELF 

Poem for Today - February 3, 2014

MOVEMENT

Towards not being

anyone else’s center

of gravity.

                A wanting

to love: not

to lean over towards

an other, and fall,

but feel within one

a flexible steel

upright, parallel

to the spine but

longer, from which to stretch;

one’s own

grave springboard;

                the out-flying spirit’s

vertical trampoline.

© Denise Levertov