By Titus
Date: 2001 Oct 16
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Barefoot Stroll

I want to walk barefoot
In a place where barefoot has no name
In a place where soul on Earth
Is natural
A place where toes in soil
Is common as
True love
Laughter
And birth

I want to walk barefoot
In the hills of a hidden holy land
And stare at sunsets with people who
Know sunrise isn't guaranteed
In a place where the evening news speaks of tides,
The waning moon and the rainforests wild as Ojai's dance
In a place where shoe and umbrella are curse words
Where dahlias and pearls adorn every head.

I want to walk barefoot
In cities without streets
Where admiration is a deep silence
And conversations are replaced by
Eloquence of eye
Barefoot in a place
Where excuses are not enforced in law books
Where there is no law
Only that which is right

When these places leave tracks
I follow their footsteps
But they always lead to the sands
Of my own spirit
I stand in the middle of myself
Bowing to the mecca I know
The sight of me
Strolling barefoot
Into my own life
Leaving behind thieves and tyrants
Trying to control it.