Ode to Artists

You make me feel free.

You lift me up, and take me with you,

When you soar across the stage, with your feet just brushing

the ground.

You make me feel free.

I glide along with you,

When your brush dips and slides, on the blank white canvas.

You make me feel free.

Your words take me to another world,

As your hands fly, and your mind whirls, with ideas flowing like

water.

You make me feel free.

The music sends me spinning through all of the possibilities,

the notes sending me higher and higher.

With the sky as your limit, you rocket off into space, with a

flurry of imagination.

You make me feel free.

As you plan out your story, your steps, your picture.

As I experience the full true you, through your way of me.

826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students from under-resourced communities in San Francisco with their writing skills.