Alleviate this paralysis.
Free my limbs from damnation,
My heart from sorrow,
My mind from the echoes of a distant future.
Break my flesh.
Tear the muscle,
Caress the tired bones
That hold me hostage to this body.
Breath me in.
Deep breaths until there’s nothing left
Then let me fall,
Let me shatter under the weight
Of this world
So dauntingly heavy,
So daringly affixed to my spirit,
So alive,
So alive like the fluttering heartbeats
Of a woman in love;
Alive like the misty morning fog;
Like coffee on a cold morning;
Like the first snowfall of the year.
Then let me be.
- ELKS
