An open field

You showed me an open field

Where flowers could flourish

Under the warmth of a vastly benevolent sun

Where rich and fertile soil

Could give birth to the promise of radiant blooms

Reflecting in their aura

The healing energy of those solar rays

But here I am

Struggling to breathe

My heart all surrounded by fences

While my gaze remains trapped

Upon the barren ground of my past

Running images through my consciousness

Only of betrayal

And how I weep

From this condition

As the truth of my own entrapment

Becomes so clear

For a soul to now meet

Its shadow promise

To find in another

All of the lost hope and longing

It buried so long ago

Is not easy

And I shadow box all the time

With doubt mistrust and disbelief

While you speak of hope and trust

And knowing for sure

With all your heart

The beauty of an open field

And so

As I lay me down to rest

I pray with everytbing in my heart

To leave behind this inner prison

To find a gateway

A portal

A way through

To that open field