Like running through an open field of perfectly cut bright green grass
Sprinkled with islands of wildflowers
With Thumper and Bambi racing alongside
Under a brilliantly blue sky
Without clouds or rain or shade
Free like the slight breeze, babbling brook, and family of robins singing in the trees
Trusting you feels like freedom
Like sauntering down a well-lit gravel street
Under a harvest moon and infinite stars in the sky
With dogs barking in the distance while their owners play fetch and wrestle before bedtime
Where owls are perched high, hunting for pray and calling out for their mate
Free like the multicolored dragonfly -- beautiful and bold, resilient and in flight
Trusting you feels like freedom
Like wandering through an endless library with every book in any language ever spoke
Like a warm fireplace,
A hot cup of chocolate, with marshmallows,
An oversized chair in which we both can fit and a blanket that always keeps the temperature just right
Where music plays in the background just faint enough, we know it's there but can't quite hum along
So, we make up a tune between the notes while we smile at each other over the turn of each page, until we're done
Only to pick up the next one, laying on the table to our side,
Having no better place to be, no greater thing to do, but be lost in a storybook with you
Trusting you feels like freedom
Free like a storm cloud passing by, quenching the earth's thirst with its nourishing precipitation
Free like falling down, confidence crushed,
Only to see a hand reaching out, turned to tight hug and a push to encourage you to get back out, to try again,
Now even more emboldened
Free like being lost, and yet unafraid of what's before you
Free like knowing what I don't know now is all the room I have left to keep growing
Trusting you feels like freedom
And freedom is all I'll ever need
To keep showing up as me