I wander between heart and mind Between daydreams and reality Between tormenting silences And tiring screams Between yes and no Between beauty and tragedy Between being stripped and layered Between passion and comfort Between hurtful truths and comforting lies Between search and rescue Between sky and roof Between full and empty Between realization and delusion Between whole and pieces Between gaining and losing But most of all between my own inner landscape Weeding watering Planting uprooting Building dismantling Fencing unlatching Acknowledging that this garden is not perfect Not by any stretch of the imagination It has been the Atlantis of the soul Seen layers below the rock bottom It has been a traveler Who has found a home In happiness and in pain.