Chains

Sometimes these chains around me

Make breathing hard

In the man made world where preservation

Over rides joy

There was a time I could dance

with gay abandon

There was a time when

the simplicity of stars

was enough to bring my heart alive

Here out in the open air

I feel the presence

of nature’s soothing

There in your man made worlds of electronic heat

I sense all of my breath

disappearing

as you speak of things

that bind my being in chains

So if silent tears fall

don’t ask me to speak of it

even though I try

Just set me free

to leave

so I find may the open space

where I can breathe

a healing breath

and simply be