inside

Inside

The rain falls down around me but I am warm inside.

What is to fear when everything I love is there, and it waits for me?

Why should I not be whatever I feel like being?

Whichever way the wind blows, I’m free.

Don’t hold me down,

Don’t pull me back,

I’m here awake, looking around at my world,

And even if it’s rent in two, I can hold on.

I can be me.

I can know that I have peace and not be afraid of all that is to come.

For what is there will stay,

I cannot make it go away,

And what is here is mine,

And I can do with it what I will.

And though the clouds gather and the rains fall,

The storms rage and the world crumbles,

I can still be me,

And within me is the strength which never lets me go,

So I shall never let it go,

For as long as I can hold on, I will.

And that’s the only way to be free.

Why not choose?