| ALIVE Like emerging from the womb, I am introduced to a new world where nothing is frightening, only fascinating and awaiting my first step. My hands pass before my eyes and I am amazed at these protrusions and that they respond to my every whim! Somwehere in the middle of my body I feel there to be some kind of rhythm, a kind of regular rush that makes me breathe faster and faster making my eyes grow wider and wider until I am forced to blink in the blinding light. I feel lightheaded and dizzy and I want to run in every direction, stubbing my toes, feeling no pain. Ankles stuck together as if bound. Bounding from spot to spot like a rabid pogo stick, I giggle like a man confined by padded walls. People walk around all day taking the pavement that they walk on for granted. I wish to crawl on hands and knees inspecting the very pebbles imbedded in the floor. I want to see the veins in a single leaf. I want to know how it feels to have a drop of sweat blaze a path down my chest that started its journey on someone else's body. I want to feel everyone and everything. I want to live |