what frightens you is the open spaces
where there is still human life
where there is rhythm in the way
a small child walks
and there are sounds that
resemble heartbeat

anything exciting
will make the world
turn
today
and in the beginning
nay, it wasn't stagnant,
there was an ever so subtle
glimmering,
flickering of light,
the awakening

light feathers, wings
for freedom

and this crowd is a cage now,
some dreadful benevolence
amongst lies
like the way you have voiced
the obliterating opinion
of what we are,
your appraised potential
of yesterday
thinking
if you had not been born
you could have been
would have been
eternal.