Bars and Walls
No one can know
how it feels when they crash to the ground
Those bars and cages and walls so damn tall
I can't entirely blame others for building
I am certain most were constructed by me
Not all
Not all
But those that are the strongest ... I built
to protect me
from them
They fell today
crumbled
crashed
laid so very loudly at my feet
Bricks
Chain-link
Mortar designed to keep me out
Cages created to bar me from freedom
Walls that kept me trapped by them
I'm crying as I write
Telling a story of a hostage
That clawed and scrapped day after day
for an escape
There is never going to be a way
To describe
How it feels
To finally be free of the bondage
to be free of him with her
of him with me
I will never truly be free
As, he is with her and not with me
The harm is deep, and the sadness is as if bricks bombard me
But ...
He lost me
Gave me to the world
Set me free
I have to believe
I am a gift to others
I have to believe I will rise, shed the shame they cast onto me
and find a way
to build a life that defines all that I am
beyond the chains and walls and bondage they inflicted on me
beyond all they destroyed
beyond all I once dreamed ...