I Am Simple

I am of a simple nature. In a world full of complicated rules, constraints and conditions. So full of an overlapping entangled knotted mess of convoluted chaos. Full of so many constant contradictions, even amongst the very language I speak. And yet I am of such a simple nature that I be the one to stands out as so unbelievably complicated. 


I only wish to have time, to stand in the sunlight and dance abound in the moonlight. I desire simple things like mint tea and a warm embrace. I am not so hard to know, just to understand. 


Because this mess we call society and human nature is so irrevocably more complicated than it need be. It’s a disaster of a state. And yet it is what we call normal, what we force to be normal. If ever there was such a thing. 


I am of simple nature. I do not ask for much. Only time and space and freedom to be as I’d like and to exists as I so greatly desire to. 


Please leave me to my small delights and simple desires. Leave my small heart to it’s love of love and let come of it what will. I don’t think that much to ask. 


Maybe I’m nothing but a rebel who wishes to be left alone. Maybe I only fear that which I know not of. Maybe I hide in big words so as to not show my hand. My hand being full of unprofessed love and the squashed thoughts of all I thought I was. Maybe I forced the words to do my dirty work as penance for all that they have failed me. 


I am of a simple nature. Just leave me to lean into the woods so I might collect up the broken pieces left in the carnage of the war between my head and my heart. Leave me to put place to my fracture mind. You can stay with me awhile, if you want, just please remember to leave plenty of room for the trees to do all the talking. Leave room for me to touch the clouds. Leave room for me to choose you. 

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