You're like
A cardboard maze
Hard to navigate
Darker than outer space
But your walls
Can be torn down
Easily
All that duct tape
Won't keep them up
I tried
To keep those walls intact
I tried
To respect them
But the maze
To understand you
It was too much
Too overwhelming
Did you really expect me
To just stay
Cramped
In the dark
With cardboard burns
All over my elbows and knees
Did you really think
That I'd just stay there
Waiting
For eons
No,
I won't just wait
In claustrophobic
Dark mazes
Once I realised
You weren't going
To give me any help
I tore down a wall
And finally stood back on my own two feet
Stretched
And let my eyes adjust to the brightness
I followed the structure of the cardboard maze
Until I was finally free
You yelled and complained
That I cheated
Not really cheating
When you purposefully blocked me in
With nowhere to go
Sorry about your cardboard walls
But it was bound to happen
When you decided to make a maze out of
Flimsy cardboard
YOU ARE READING
Leaving Behind the Endless Fields of Corn and Soybeans
PoetryEveryone has that one place in their heart. The two will always be connected, whether they love that place, or hate that place. My place? My town? I love it, I hate it. I've left it behind. This collection of poetry is about the place, the town, tha...
