I trap my feelings,
hold tightly
in sad embraces.
I fall into cold waters
of impatience, impermanence.
There’s solitude,
a brainwash from substance
and matter.
Tongues of a thousand
leaves shake
in scorn at me.
I wither under hard glass
and fold my emotions
in these twilight hours.
I hide fast wings
under my breast
and can’t release
them to the sky.
Where’s a healthy rope
to draw myself out,
climb over the wall between me
and the light? Time.
Smile for me, life!
Smile and see me grow.
I’m young in your eyes.
Help me unhide my wings,
to raise them up
and let me shine.
