Hello
Children
From
Above
Please
Save
Me
From
The
Effects
Of
Ecstasy
The one that rips your heart in two
That fakes a heart attack
The horrible kind
The one called
Love.

Do I just grab on the sands of time
And hold onto every single grain?
Do I stay till I'm wrinkled and grey
Or do I lose myself in someone else?

Do I keep what my heart remembers
Or do I kindle the memories stored?
Do I cast shadow on what we were
Or bring to light what we'll never be?

Do I wait to tell you what's in my heart
Or let the tides of time break it to pieces?
Do I tell you how the feelings never ceases
Or do I let slide what feelings still linger?

Do I mask what I think and feel
Or to let them both come to collide?
Do I convince myself into that lie
Or let myself be awoken to truth?

Do I wait for you till I am but
Bones and ashes
Or do I cast away these thoughts
and see where my heart latches?

Constricted, tied down to a thought
Of how we’re living the labels given
to us and there are billions of fishes
in the sea but yet everyone is caught
in a net.

We’ve told plus sized people that they
can’t wear skinny jeans, because it’s
not labelled for them. We’ve held
obesity at gunpoint in the light of day
as though they can only be loved at night.

We’ve forced shackles on men and women
to tie them not by the threads of their heart
but by the words of a constitution that darkens
the glimmer of light within love that is kept hidden.
When did the law and love intertwine to form handcuffs?

We cast our shadows on issues of racism;
fought out wars with prejudice and hatred,
only to be blinded by tainted teachings of
a generation lost in separation and division.
We fought colour on colour, “for society”.

Look around, seven point four billion people
all alive, tied down to the judgements of society;
an overbearing handcuff that controls our hearts
and our soul, a journey of an already prewritten sequel.
Look around, you and me, are we really free?