Free Spirit

by Luna Maluna Gri

You think I am free
because I’m not settling,
because I’m running wild,
without boundaries.
But let me tell you how it is
to live without a place called home,
without roots.
I was four when we moved
from what I knew as familiar.
We moved from Vienna,
but only to move after a year again,
to a place we settled.
It took me a long time to understand
that I never did.
I was still restless inside,
fearing,
for every time I knew,
if something would change
I’d loose everything again.
I’m not used standing still.
Maybe that’s why I crave traveling so much. Moving.
Change.
That’s when I started healing.
I don’t have roots,
I don’t have that one place I call home,
for I have so many,
so many hearts I live in
and loving places I call home.
You probably don’t understand.
You have only one home.
But for those who feel like me,
wandering,
like a breeze on a summer’s eve,
I feel you.
Let me tell you,
you don’t need that one “home”.
For the only home you need is you.
You is the only home you need.
You and the love and light that lives inside you. Sparkling,
spreading wings.
Everything else will come.
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About the author

"My name is Luna Maluna Gri, I’m nineteen and from Vienna, Austria. I love doing creative things like writing, drawing, painting or dancing. Through my artwork I express my feelings, emotions, myself.
It’s a way of healing, finding the way back to myself, finding my voice and spreading my messages to the world."