Clean Slate, New Beginning, Fresh Start, Hope Springing

I awaken to find nothing familiar laying out by a spring of transparent water.

With nothing familiar I am bound by no tether, it is with this realization must I choose panic or wonder.

No strings attach me,

No longer bound I am free!

Panic is dismissed for sheer exhilaration.

My heart begins to pound as I push myself up off of the ground.

I tug at my clothes, the word "my" feeling wrong on my self to impose.

I push the straps off and over my shoulders, with each article removed feeling all the more bolder.

In mind and body completely bare, I wade into the water and lose myself there.

I form the first memory to which I shall cling, the water is cold, the sun is warm, yes I can feel everything.

My heartbeat strong beneath my naked breast, the water envelops me while time is at its rest;

This is existence.

This is me.

Now that I'm baptized, renewed, cleansed and clean, I will continue to wonder, wander and dream.