The Journey of One: From Rebellion to Truth

The Journey of One: From Rebellion to Truth

She stands on the event horizon
gazing solemnly at her world
as it ebbs slowly into the constraints
of a swirling vortex from which
her vividly imaginative mind incarnated.

She swaddled herself in discarded clothing
that embraced the provocative,
the taboos, the alternative, and the individual.
She paints herself unnatural in colors
that clash like tital waves against the cliffs.
Clad in boots of war and emblems of mystery,
the image she gazes at in the mirror
is that of defiant individual,
one against an army of
the droll and the mundane.

She dreams of nature and pagan faith,
where witches dance their rites and
cast their circles in open coven community.
She reads and studies to learn
the path forbidden to her
by her parents religion,
and she prays to the Gods and Goddesses
for acceptance somewhere and
for a friendly face to share the journey.

And then one day,
somewhere in her twenties,
she awakens to the fact that
she is a woman grown.
And she is a Witch of greater faith
than she ever imagined was possible.
Time has altered her perception and her age,
but it could not take away
who she had chosen to become.
Her life's journey began in rebellion,
but continues in the truth of
her transcending spirit and
her ever expanding mind.