The way I’m meant to be...

The way I’m meant to be...

 "All we are is all we are,"
these echoes resonate straightaway beyond the vague
It took a long while to get here, awaken in the dream,
embrace the wound, can’t fix the way I’m meant to be

Somehow I just don't believe it
I’m just drowning out here caught in the rain
Hear a gentle pitter-patter dripping light
yet flood the tears unbridled reign

"How on earth did he get so jaded? "
…the little bird heard it once said;
whispered from a very near yet very far distance,
thought out loud, casually breathed unsaid

Silent words streak white hot
through the mind’s fiery frictions sleight,
like a burning comet’s sweltering resistance
throughout the journey, atmosphere’s cosmic flight

This weight from a world fighting gravity
is too much for these broken wings to fly away
Just unhook the leash, where I'm meant to be
release me back unto mother earth's fields,

whither birds fly upward over the mountain
where wild dogs run free…

© Harlon Rivers ...2013