NAKED

My first poetic post. Hope you like it.


Naked

Eyes closed she leaps, naked -
free from the garments of pain and distress -
for the clouds.


Her feet kiss green grass goodbye.
Her arms reach for heaven above.
Her hair flows through the air,
effortlessly like an unfettered kite.


She looks down at her body,
it remains below.
Each blade of grass surrounding it holds it
like gyves around the ankles of a slave.
It is anchored in red clay earth,
Returning to where it came.