Why Chain Up A Free Spirit?


When the prison doors’ hinges did rust and creak…
Grooming my tache, when the lubricious door-sills roll?
Run of the mill…basal emotions.
Walls breathing, Squitoes feasting, cold comfort, deafening silence…
Grappling in the dark room…homely countenances on walls, my “Solitude” on the pedestal.

     Tick-toking.  Entangled forever?
Doors locked, I shackled.
     I long to whiff limbate carnations once more like a bee-fly, in nectarines.
Ice-cake? Bizarre rum? Honey-Pie?  Sweet-tooth. Savory of deceit?
     Like you…

Roam, rove freely like yesterday…
Run, speeds notwithstanding, to wherever I may.
Fly high up and above,
If only on wings, to distances yet to be known, like an eagle.
Creep and wiggle to depths unidentified.
Swim upstream, in the seas unknown
In the unseemly undercurrents; Half seas over.
Now and not forever.

In my homeland, reverently lie on the lawns.
Oil my pistons, tame my ground and trim my hedge.
Ingeniously Yoked. Am ashamed not.
Am neither a tramp nor a drifter! Shaking the shackles.
Unkennel me! I want out!
Why chain up a FREE SPIRIT?!

Comments

  1. Unknown23 January 2013 at 09:16

    Tim, this is amazing stuff. I didn't appreciate last year, but this year, whoof! this seems to be your year man, keep workin!

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