When did you forget?

When did you forget to trust your heart?

To say yes to the rain

That fell

And dance to your hearts content

Opening your body and being to its blessings?

When did you forget

That love is stronger than pride

And yes even than fear?

When did you forget

That happiness

Is a choice

Something you can hope for

And find inside

Even when life is dark?

When did you start

Wwallowing your words?

And begin to believe them

That your truth doesn’t matter?

Don’t your remember

How your heart almost drowned under the weight

Of that prohibition of silence?

For who you are needs to be spoken

Danced or sun

Come to think of it

When did you stop

Believing in angels

Who hear your prayers

And hold your soul

When it is hurting?

When did you forget

That no matter who hates you

Love is there

Laying under a blanket of silence

Wanting you to find it

When did you forget

That in the end

Hurt only has the power you give it

To bruise and bury your soul

When hate became too strong

Love and hope fled from your breast

Leaving a caged bird starving

Forgotten

Alone

Dying

It waited there

For your breath

To re-infuse it with life

Don’t forget my darling

Don’t fall asleep again

Don’t believe the lie

That you have no power

When power asks of you to recognise it

To no longer surrendering it

To defeat and lies

Find that little bird

Lying at the bottom its cage

And with your breath

Give it wings to fly