Exercise wasn’t
My personal forte, but
I took no chances.

My ulitmate fear
Was that my head would be way
Too fat for my mask.

The city was her city
She called it home
She ruled over it
But she couldn’t defend it

So she ran here
To the lighthouse
Across the lake
And she waited

As the darkness grew above
The city burned brighter below
Flames engulfed the
Towering buildings

She couldn’t defend the city
So she hid herself away
Afraid of dying
Trying to save the city

forever forever forever

eternity… is not that long

it is forever but forever ends

one form than another it bleeds

shape into shape until

existence

is a blur stars the stars

go by so fast until

the universe

becomes a cosmos

ever changing yet still the same

life

bursts forth bright and new

reborn in the ashes of destruction

a spark where once there was

darkness alone until suddenly

flame

and new life is born

at once a world bright and shining

an infant world that looks out with no preconceptions until knowledge comes and the world is not so shiny and a child becomes jaded as a sun sets night falls and monsters crawl out from under beds and closets whose doors have been left open

in bed with the covers drawn over ones head

I WILL NOT BE AFRAID

I am not a slave

not to anyone not even fear

your fear

that you forced on me

why?

because you didn’t want it anymore?

did giving it to me take away the shivers and goosebumps that run down your spine as you remember the time when as a child you first learned fear in the dark as hands grasped at you and pain blossomed in your tiny body

memories you tried to bury under the blanket of success

No, you didn’t let it bring you down

you have the job and the money

but still you cant sleep with the door open

still you wake with tear stains on your pillow

and when the sun comes up can you look at yourself in the mirror without shame?

Of course you can,

because all the shame and the fear that you once knew

has been dealt out

little by little over the years

to others whose eyes had not yet learned the proper respect of fear

but you taught them

after all, everyone needs to learn that the world is a harsh cold place

just as you did all those years ago in the dark

where we all must eventually find ourselves