Confined Freedom

The start of a day new

From a slightly ajar door

Dawn’s first blue 

Filters through.

The beauty of the moment,

Terribly transient;

The lingering calm I long,

Is the very element absent.

From the hallway 

Emerges a silhouette 

The darkness slowly settles 

The calming blue I begin to forget.

The shadow is now

Standing nose to nose 

Everything I was running from 

Is the only thing, close.

The settling shivers

I try so hard (and fail) to fight 

Loud shadows 

Block out the only apparent light.

Scared, I wanted to flee

But this shadow is cast by a tree

Which so happens to be me;

Running away from who I am

Further away from who I want to be,

I chain myself.

I set me free.