Crippling Freedom

CRIPPLING FREEDOM

My environment, clouds my mind

Sights,

Sounds,

A fugue,

Confiscated time

Lost in a loop,

Lost in nature's sublime

To wait for guidance is folly

Compass cracked, increased melancholy

I require a map,

A benchmark to track,

A direction,

A starting point, where?

I have not the knack

Wilderness so vast,

To stay lost or follow a path,

The necessary decision drains my identity,

My vision,

Sound judgement,

Ah, repeated feelings of the past,

My heart crumbles at last,

My dreams aghast,

Downcast

A third option I seek,

A path of my own,

To trail blaze these landscapes,

Cartography, adventure, a home

I need not others needs,

I need my own creed,

Because it's me

Lost in the wilderness,

It's oh so tragically me

To stake one's claim,

Liberating indeed

A thought that cripples,

A thought that frees.