THE CANVAS

Give it up: 

your name,

all the awkwardness 

of being,

what you know to be true.

Become torrent, butterfly or dream,

something you’re not

and never have been.

Unhinge from 

the persisting paradigms

of the mind

and enter the space

between the polarities 

that partition and confound,

where everything is actually

woven. From here

you will ride the spiral

like a wind or a wave

and find the anthem

that will free you,

the canvas

that will paint you.