Toxic

Wanting to surrender  

To the life held tight

Wrapped in isolation

Over thinking

Causing perspiration

Hunted like a wild dog

Cornered by imagination

What is true

Eyes that cover the blue

Pressed down

Sheltered harness

Covers the invisible

Freedom

Locked in time

Breath stands still

Fight none left

Secrets hidden

Cultivate the forbidden

Suffer

In a corn field

Where nothing ever grows

He stands and stares

No one cares

Birds in flight

With the will to fight

Flying freely

Like a run away kite

Exhausted with tiredness

Sun scorching his head

Hands like splinters

Harsh will be the winter

Swooping down to capture

A closer look

Swirling around him

They take what they can

As the burnt ground

Suddenly hardens

With frost winters face

Hunger takes place

Let the rain fall

He prays

With his eyes touching the sky

Hardship in the lines of seeds

Again he prays oh why

Days pass nothing changes

Noise of the turning pages

Cries call out from the children

Empty tummies

Rumbling like drums

Digging the dark

Cold ground

Nothing to feed them

Nothing to be found

Laying their heads down

On cold damp beds

Echoes of hardship

Fill each wall

Pride

Let me be your

Beanstalk climb me

If you will

Shred my edges

Show me your skill

Aroused and woken

Words to be spoken

Calm the voices

Make your choices

Conquering the messages

Puzzled by the unsolved

Lay down your head

Sleep will resolve

Patience hidden

Underneath hands

That are worn

Worked to the bone

Sorrow

Let me climb

Your mountain

Allow me to

Taste your soul

Body fallen slowly

Like a new

Born foal

A trail of

Teasing delight

Eyes opened wide

Emotions suppressed

No where to run

No where to hide