Introspection Poem by Gabrielle Ciarann Roniyah Baer

It is a gift
I never expected
nor looked for
to dropp the stiff mantle
of twenty some odd hard won years,
and dive
headfirst [backwards? ]
into laughing, singing,
loving childhood.

G-d, and everyone else knows
I did nothing
to earn this reprieve
from my cool, calm, quiet crab-cell.

Life terrifies me still
it just doesn't
paralyse me now,
not very often
I'm inside down upside out!
[I think I like it! ]

written in July '77