I am not grounded in this world.
For too long, it didn't exist to me -
unimportant, not touching my safety zone.
Now I see how everything matters
and it is too much; I cannot process it
through the shaded view of my former self
and no new self has come into the clear.
So I am left stranded, weightless and floating, -
no anchor, no true connection -
severed from what I had and knew,
and unsure what new connections
should be made and should be lasting.

I am left with nothing but air.

11/10/2003

Author's Note: First draft. Probably...no, definitely going to rewrite this. Something about it now bothers me. Suggestions?

Posted on 11/11/2003
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