wrapped in chains,
metal links that bind my heart,
my body, my soul
Bindings that bite,
that tear and rend,
as if to punish me
for my escape attempts.
And yet I have struggled
have yearned to breathe without effort
to feel without pain
to think without thought
And now, by some strange twist of fate
some weakened weld, some rusted link
has snapped and broken
and the chains have fallen.
I breathe,
a deep full breath
savoring the air that fills me
air that is somehow different than before
At last I'm free!
the word seems alien, almost arcane
filled with a power
the mortal mind cannot imagine
The world is mine,
to explore, to sense, to experience
countless new sensations
awaiting my new existence
And stepping free of my shattered chains,
stepping forward into the world,
I find myself pausing......
At the bars of my cell.
