Alive Poem by Frank Valenti

For the very first time in your life
You feel completely and utterly alive
Not from something material
Nor anything spiritual
Nothing that another has done or said
But finally living like you were meant to
Complete in every way imaginable
Doing nothing for any reason but your own
Free from the wrath of the nay sayers
And alive from unbelievable ingenuity
You have created and established
An entire world for yourself
Now that what a real life is like
There is no way that you'll ever go back
To living for another
Alive you are and alive you shall remain