Expanding
Oceans expanding
Catch my stumbling feet
My mind flashes and
reminds of
What I'm dressed as
Today
I am a slave
I find I have imprisoned myself
Again
Desiccated ruts break the
cracked earth
And the buzzing heat spits dryly my throbbing head.
I
begin to climb the fence
But the barbed wire tears my hands
My bloody
arms, legs and I am so afraid
Of the pain
In my sleep I am pulled out to sea
The waves and torrents twining
around my limbs
Enfolding my waist
The water is my refuge
But now
not quenching it has only extinguished
And I awake in the fear
Stung
by sharp salt that was once all that I craved.
You do not see inside
me.
My anger may be sodden
But it still can be, wet.
I reach
for it, the pain
The hope of its touch
But the pain of the fear
Snags me
With the fear of the pain.
And because I am afraid
I
am in hiding
I am my slave
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