Celebrate

0ut of the darkness I came with the grime of depression clinging
on like a parasite sucking my blood but as I enter the light and
the sun baked off the grime left it to fall away in the fresh
breeze I looked at the sky and see white puffy happy clouds and
the sun trying to warm a beat up soul a little healing was going
to be done here I turned back looking at the darkness and wondered
if a train was soon coming to hit me but no time to worry for it
was time to be happy it was time to look back and say I WIN again
depression anger embarrassment and critics all took their swing at
me and I came out the other side alive and scathed but alive�and
for the first time I whispered the word let it slip easily off my
tongue and did not feel sick by being so alive I said it this time
with gusto and savored the joy of it like a fine wine that even
just the taste of it makes you smile thinking of sun lit vineyards
and the time it took to become so good�at this I yelled it out
into the air as if a challenge to the world that I was alive and
by GODnothing would take that away without a fight for the first
time in a long time I thought about what I could do could be
better then this fine wine of life better then all the people in
the dark who had claimed to be my superiors.
I look back into the dark and I wonder at those I left behind or those who got caught in my sad hurt and bitter anger and I wonder for them if they to have found a way out I smile the smile of a man who has found himself with out burden anymore with out pain without sorrow. I start walking down the trail and begin to whistle a happy tune and hope down this happy trail that I find those I hurt and heal them give what I should have given the first time friendship kindness a help up.
The world called out its now happy tune matching me note for note in its joy at having another just happy to be alive�