by Sondra Falck

Created on: October 09, 2008

Want

I don't want

To take my life

And smash it against

The wall

Where scattered shards

Of my snow globe world

Carve my heart from my chest.

I don't want

To try to stand

In rising water

And drown,

Grasping for land

That keeps drifting

Farther and farther away.

I don't want

To wear these shoes

They don't permit me

To walk

They clamp my feet to the ground

And I miss the paths

We used to wander on.

I don't want

To look at the sky

From behind a pane

Of glass

Trying to remember that time

When the sun kissed my face

And the wind laughed through my hair.

I know all these things

That I don't want

But I'll be damned

If I know what I do.

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