I am me
I can’t live in the dark
I need the light
I am not a moth
Who will find the light
And die
I am not Icarus
I don’t want to fly
too close
To the sun
But I am not a bear
Hibernating through
a permanent winter
I am also not a wall flower
Indistinguishable
from wallpaper
Or a cockroach
Scuttling in the shadows
Or a spider trying to
build a place to live
Or hide under a rock
in a long forgotten corner
But once in the light
Will I become target practice?
Will I get burnt?
Will you stop and glare?
Turn away and ignore me
Will I be blamed for
The milk going sour
The price of bread
The fading of the curtains
The ills of human kind
Will my life be Sisyphus like?
Pushing my burden up the hill
towards the light
Just to see myself
back at the bottom
Burden intact
Condemned to a life
Without change
I need to be able to
walk and think
Love and hate
smile and laugh
and breathe and live
I have a lifetime
Of success and failure
Of triumph and sorrow
Of good and bad
Of right and wrong
I am human
I am real
I am me…
@theozgreenman
5March2023