From the forthcoming novel, 'the alpha to omega'

I am a free spirit

Beautiful and loving

Emanating light.

In my eagerness

For her to see it

I stumble and fall

Extinguishing my light

Renting my gowns

Tarnishing my beauty

And so she sees

My eagerness as desperation

My love as fear

I become less than I am

And she sees the sadness

With which this false image fills me

But I am a free spirit

Beautiful and loving

Emanating light

She will see it

Or not, of her own accord

In time