Poem: Leaping

Amidst the struggle to escape one's own identity, Leaping evokes the longing to dissolve into the tranquility of nature, leaving behind the burdens of life and seeking solace in the azure waters and cloudless skies. It's a profound exploration of the yearning for liberation from inner and outer confines.

Written by Ana Johnson, PhD.
Narrated by Carmela Rapino.
Photo by A. Johnson.
Music: Present Moment by Chris Collins.

Transcript

Leaping oh I wish I could leap out of this identity run away towards the body of bright azure lake water drawing me like a magnet as if I could be dissolved from all the sorrow and swallowed by the cloudless sky dissolved from the tingling of my right broken foot from the incessant unforgiving pounding of my feet one after the other and from the numbness evaporating from my body along with the sweat from the late September morning thereafter no longer able to run from nothing