It is only as I begin

My journey

That I realize

A path has been laid for me

There are footprints

I can follow

The perfect shape and size

For my own tentative

Steps

A trail that was blazed

By serious

Unsmiling women

Who gave me the room

For my joy

Without them

My freedom

Still so flawed

Would be tied

To a fixed place

And a static destiny ~ Caroline A. Slee