Restlessness

Where you are

Is where you live

Inside your mind

Shackled to a painful hell

At least as far as I can tell

And so it goes when darkness grows

All around our hearts

Arresting their beating

Giving us no pathway out

Of self obsession

Belying the truth that mental health

Exists in full possession of our ability

To embrace this living moment

That so often scares

Us into breathlessness

I saw you run away

While I longed to be close

But in the end

I see it was my wound that chose

You to be my mirror

With the lesson learned

This love I seek

Must first be found within

If I am ever to fully escape

The living hell

Of a mind the lost a way so very long ago

To calm the restlessness

Of my beating heart