My house is falling apart
Doors unhinged
Appliances on the brink
Electricity crackling where it shouldn't be
My heart
Is trying desperately to remain
Unbroken
I hold it like a soapy dish I've just washed
Hang it gingerly on the line
Let the hot desert wind
Caress it
As it beats.
With each beat I go into myself
For another journey into my alternate universe
A carefree adventure
Of travel, love and lust
Stories untold coming to life
As I spring forth and dance
Energy sparking out from my veins
As my heart spills over with joy and vivacious
glory.
As I go through my list of mundane tasks
That keep my house whole and my children safe,
happy and clean
fed with spoonfuls of my love
I am half relieved that I can provide this:
Mother Earth at her best,
protective arms encircling
their realm.
They do not know that
the other half is all caged animal,
Longing for the wild plain,
The jungle, the ocean
To run without stopping
Or swim
As deep as
I please.
Soar as high
As the sky will allow.
What is this fragile balance that tips ever so slightly
Over the brink
Of sanity?
For now collapsing into
A cool crisp bed
On this hot summer night
Will have to do.
I launch into the land of dreams
as my heart beats  on,
its strings pulling ever
so slightly up
delicate cords tethered
to my chest.
I take my kite-heart
And wrap its strings around my home,
keeping it together as I fly away.

August, 2013