Free me

feel a quiet weight settled,

When wrapped secure in burst forth, leap, burn through and conquer,

It won't last forever or even long enough,

When has forever been enough in which to hide,

Today, tomorrow, in time, they will tear away, 

Beat a path into their own,

And then find yourself hermit,

Lonesome lonely loon, ha.....

Find yourself open, 

open to yourself, 

open to the venom you've hidden deep,

Afraid, maybe?....

Afraid that anyone will decide the possibility of honey isn't worth the sting,

And so....

Wound the one who can't leave,

Wound me, great poisoned slashes on our open self,

Strike and sit back, 

Oh, not to watch, but to wait 

Wait for the searing pain to burn out and once again, 

Strike, Fester, Repeat, ha.....

If we could fly, a fledgling,

Pushed out, 

demanded to live, damn you!!

Struggling, flapping hard, 

And time.....age be the wind beneath our wings,

Know that I'd gladly stop, turn over and fall to a time,

When we too leaped, we too burst, we too wrote our thoughts in blazing unapologetic lines,

across the mouths spewing the voices in our head,

But love, we leapt so high, 

we caught the wind, 

and for so long, we've been carried 

Weightless, effortless and......happy....

Happy, until we aren't,

Before we jump, look deep into you,

Look at me and remember,

Beware of Joy, be aware of it, 

don't be fooled,

It will never be enough, 

We will never have enough joy to last us forever,

And so, my lovely lovely me,

Never stop reaching, 

never admonish your greed for happiness,

Reach up, leap through, burst forth,

And, I hate to say it,

jump for Joy...