Reflections

I look up at my wall and see wrapped in blackness

the essence of what's running through my veins

the voices of those calling me forward and onward and higher and deeper

the reflections of my soul

John Lewis

A Dancer

Corretta Scott King

Jackie Robinson

Maya Angelou

and Me

All staring back at me

While sitting in my bed and looking at my wall

greatness in still-life form stares back at me

beckoning me

reminding

encouraging me

strengthening me

I see me

surrounded by

fortified by

the same things that are in me:

Fortitude

Passion

Strength

Talent

Poetry

John

A Dancer

Corretta

Jackie

Maya

Me...

I see Me

Someone who wasn't made to fit into

the molds others create for her

Someone who's yet to see all she was destined to be

Someone who fits in among the posted frames of

John, a Dancer, Corretta, Jackie and Maya...

I see the inner me

I see the true me

I see me and the lives framed around me

and am encouraged

to stand

to dance

to continue

to preserve

to write

to BE

by Ashley Jataun Moore