manic

I'm plotting,
I'm planning,
I'm designing,
I'm dancing
I'm breathing,
I'm diving
I'm changing,
I'm thriving,
I'm quick and I'm agile
I slip through the night
Without a whisper
like starlings in flight.

I'm sketching ideas - and
fleshing out bones
I'm coloring the air
and making a home.

I'll shape
I'll contort
I'll create
and I'll change

I'll be free, I'll be just
I'll be strong
I'll be strange

I won't slip
I won't slumber
I won't cry
I won't fall

I'll do what I do
and outrun them all:
Those fears that don't stop
don't fail and don't fade
thick like a river
that's too deep to wade.