The Awakening

Or… way after the rooster crowed.

Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash

Question all you have been told and let go of anything that insults your Soul. Walt Whitman

For years, the world's complexities
swirled by in a blur of color and noise,
like the dizzying chaos of a children's party.
I stumbled through the days, overwhelmed,
grasping at distractions, allowing myself 
to be swept along…