I Sing Because I'm Free

Because I know what sorrow is and currently no longer feel it;

I sing.

Because I know how brief this moment can be, how quickly it can all change;

I sing.

Because there was a time when all I could do was breathe; let alone speak;

I sing.

Cameron, La. ~ June 2006 ~ Learning to sing.

Often loud, sometimes obnoxiously, but always because I’m free;

I sing.

I know there will come a time again when I will not want to; a time again when I will struggle to breathe;

but that time is not now. 

Because now I am happy

I sing.