"Day One" — a day I called myself out.

Where are you?  

Where have you been?  

You are not in the presence —  

Your presence is absent.  

Your voice is not calling.  

Your eyes have gone blind.  

Your ears have been deaf.  

You are lost in the darkness of the world.  

You are not you.  

You are not you.  

This is not me.  

This isn't who I am.  

The me is not here.  

The me is not present.  

The me is absent.  

I can't see it.  

I can't feel it.  

I hear nothing.  

But

It has come to a pitch where I bring myself out of the darkness I was buried in.  

It is time to pull myself out of the burdens on my soul.  

It is finally time to embrace the me that wants to do greater things —  

Without hurry,  

Without fear,  

Without the scare of what is coming,  

Without the hope of not falling,  

Without waiting for someone to pull me up when I'm down,  

Without the eyes that lack focus and insight,  

Without the ears that refuse to hearken to me,  

Without the feelings

 that I am bound.  

_I am present._