Naked Truth

Naked Truth

I do love walking barefoot

inside my shoes and socks,

to feel the ground beneath my soles

and sense what I am not.

To walk the earth quite naked,

cloaked in shirt and tie,

warmed by the sun upon my back

beneath my slice of sky.

I never feel embarrassed

to show just who I am

to all my fellow creatures

alive upon this land.

They’re my boon companions,

although they’re poorly dressed.

They scrabble, claw, and bite, and chew,

and do their very best

to survive upon this planet,

this spinning ball of dust,

that is our one and only home,

in the universe of us.

Craig Spence