Chasm
Published in
Feb 21, 2018
I want to go but I don’t go
I want to go but I don’t go
there’s a window in my head
there’s a door into the air
there’s a hole within my voice and voices
everywhere
are telling me it’s safer here
so I don’t go
all that I have known wants to bind me as its own
while all I cannot see is telling me I could be free
my voices speak and speak and bray and speak
now I’m so weak I cannot go
so I don’t go
and I don’t speak
but there’s a beating in my chest
a hidden path into the west
and things too good to hear
are being carried to my ear
and I must go
or else be left
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