OPPRESSED

 I am oppressed

Under the night sky.

In the ballrooms filled with light

Where I am free to dance underneath

A thousand chandeliers

I am bonded still.

I ran wildly

Across the fields of lavender

Across the hinterlands

Where nothing grew

Along the roads that entwined

With the shadows of the mountains.

I have ridden the mist

When it sailed to distant horizons

To give the Herald of the coming storm.

I have stood atop the rugged hills

As the rain poured over the mires I lit

A fire that never died.

As my spirit leaps into the dusk it will reach

An empty place

The Fields of Abandonment

And there she will lay silently

To sleep.

Therefore,

Bind me

Before I ever reach that place

In a dungeon where

Firelight dances along the cold walls.

Chain me unto a rock

But do open the door sometimes

So that light could nourish 

My fading eyes.

For in this prison of silent screams

I know I shall sing

I know I shall wander.