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Just for Today
By Michele Johnson, Army
Writing Type: Poem
By Michele Roxanne Johnson
VA Medical Center—Albany, NY
Just for today I am free.
I am the whispering wind and the twinkling star.
Just for today I am the rising moon
and the setting sun.
Just for today I am a butterfly freeing myself
from the restraints of the cocoon.
Just for today I am the baby bird breaking free
from the egg.
Just for today I am the rushing river flowing
ever so freely.
Just for today I am the ocean, vast and always moving.
Just for today I am free to be me in any way
my heart, mind and soul want to be.
Just for today I am free to just be!
