For The First Time

For the first time, I felt like I could sing again.
The tell-tale signs fit together, mended back
into the shattered frame that was myself.
My voice floated through the polluted air
of the depressing city streets, and the ears of
the world heard a sound they thought
they would never hear again.
With my instrument warmed up,
I prepared to take the world by storm,
and accomplish all the things that
I set to do before, but felt was out of reach.
For the first time, I felt like I could sing again,
and I was ready to let the world know
that the sweet and timid-voiced soprano has returned.

-lj
27 February 2017