I did a fine job this time Mucking up my own thoughts spiraling me down To the pitfalls of logic Where I loose the poet And attach the analytic mind straight to the brain Forego the heart Snip it like some bothersome string attached to my favorite shirt But here is where I wake And realize that though logic and rhetoric help the structure of the self The spirit is starving behind those cold bars Scared to come out lest it be cut once more Violated like a child Helpless to the mindless bumbling oafish screams of listless beings Whom's only goal is to crush it Maim it to something other that what it is Taper it's wings And stunt the flexing whiles of its witless abandon Oh how it shone That beautiful fluctuating penumbra of brilliance That taps into the ether and brings forth light and wonder Abandoning my skepticism at least for now I bathe in the glory of freedom I have unbound