Poetry

Fear is a cage

Trapping me

Holding me

Keeping me in the same spot

I can peek through the bars

Get a glimpse of hope

But a shadow of fear covers it

Fear is a cage

Stopping me

This is the most human feeling we have 
To experience what it is to be 
Is to experience a life of the unexpected 
The unknown 
Truth 
Vows 
Promises 

It's very human to want more

In the dead of night, I begin to slumber

In my bed, I feel like a log of lumber

Whispers of wind fills the air

But im dreaming so I don't care

I wait in the dark,

with the clouds poking through the atmosphere.

I look to the stars

begging for their help.

They shoot dust in my eyes;

which brings the tears

I watch the moon as it's turning

Rain falls from the sky, 

Yet my feet are cemented on the ground. 

And the water beads on my face, 

Turning my hair wet when I wish it were dry. 

But somehow I don't care. 

Do you still find comfort 
In the way the leaves change 
Green to orange to red to green again?  
Do your clothes still smell like apples and spices?  
Do you still drink cider 

sorrows and prayers.

are you a child or a bride?
 

thief, don't pray for me

Fall often 

Stains our world brown, 

Leaves the color 

Of an old ruddy gold, 

Their tips dry, 

Crinkling with the cold 

Tick tick tick

I watch as my clock keeps moving forward…time with it.

I want it to stop moving forward. 
I want it to stop time itself

Tick tick tick…

It’s almost dinner time but I’m not hungry.

You say you want to see fall from my perspective, 
and I laugh, thinking of every maple tree 
I’ve leaned against, 
hands stained by apples split open, 
the cider I’ve spilled on my sleeves. 

Too late, too late -- there's no remedy nor cure

to nurse my once burning, beating heart;

A stone now stands in it's solemn place,

sickened, smothered, shredded apart.

I sought words to pierce your soul,

I want to live life without flaws.  

More specifically, I want to live life without any regrets. 

When I was five, I used to look up to my sister. 

I still do.