So much pressure being weighed
And I am trying not to cave
Collapsing to expectations
Of an anti-dream’s display
I try to dig out from this grave
Under roads that have been paved
Hoping for a breakthrough
Just to see the light of day
So I may finally get some air
Let my life get its repair
Feel my lungs expanding
As I gain freedom from the snare
For I once was bound, caught in err
Trapped and chained within despair
Held, claustrophobic
Hyperventilating fear
Gasping out for a breath
Yet all I tasted was regret
Drowning in the waters
As emotions drew its depths
All gravity held in check
I was suspended and beset
That I scarcely had a will to live
And it drew me to forget
How easily my eyes were blind
How effortless, betrayed the mind
To show me all alone
As though my heart could be confined
And I wonder now, what point in time
Was I convinced to be defined
By fear, maliciously in course
To a submission, so aligned
Wandering, held in contempt
Baring shame at my expense
Both judge and jury’s scornful eyes
On I, the one suspect
Justice served to no exempt
This guilty verdict I accept
Standing at the gallows
With the noose around my neck
How easily, is that first step
When mind is clouded, thoughts in theft
To feel that condemnation
Is to purposefully arrest
To steal your soul and leave you stressed
Identity all but oppressed
Lies, a labyrinth’s endless weaving
To hold you lost and dispossessed
I’ve once dwelt in the dark of times
I’ve once been fooled by tricks of mind
Losing sight of life itself
Seeing no vital signs
And though it burdened great decline
And once held me to feel confined
It had no strength against the one
Who I was in truth, realized
For it only took a glint of light
A flash or flicker shown to sight
To capture the attention
Of the eyes lost in the night
For brilliance, will it seem so bright
That pupils dare not bare the white
Piercing through the veil
So that the heart may know delight
© HeartOfBabel