escapril

a fresh start: untethered

my mother's love will always live until the earth succumbs to our abuse
the afternoon light will always creep along the bedroom wall
and the clock will always tick
much like how my limbs will always jolt and give my heart a kick
and as this tether is cut
and i begin to float off
into somewhere beyond the great horizon
the things i loved will get left behind
becoming hollow cavities in my body
no force on this green planet
could keep me from getting lost in myself
and i'll cry
i'll beg
i'll try to run
i'll spit at people
and curse at the sun
and i'll run and run and run
but then
when it begins to rain again
i'll settle into some storm drain
bobbing along on a sea of brand new
cosmic events
i will be calm
and maybe happy
bathing in spring showers
and basking in cool shadows
and everything forgotten will return
and everything yet to come will croon softly
maybe one spring afternoon
once i've sprouted new tethers
the world will be a garden
cradling me
instead of a vast empty echo chamber
swallowing me whole