Mute

I'd like to explain

but the words won't come out

I want you to hold me

but I can't turn around

I have to run away

but my feet 

are swallowed by the ground

I want to love

but I'm afraid you'll love me

and I want to tell you

but I can never speak

I want you to see me

but I'll always look away

I don't know how to have it

any other way

so I scream in my head

and eyes closed I travel

further than I've ever seen

over the valleys and down 

to the streams

to the waterfalls 

and I want to jump

but I'm afraid ill hurt myself

on the rocks

so I sit with my legs swaying

sun on my back 

I'd sing but some one

might hear

and I want to love

life and of life

to love loving

but I just can't feel it yet 

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

There is a fear of letting go here. Perhaps a trust issue. If someone has been badly let down in the past, I can understand these feelings. Thought flight - you do it too, and how helpful that can be to escape what you don't like. Nicely conveyed lines.

Chris

[Laura Kate]

Thank you so much Chris, I really appreciate it.
Laura

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Such a wonderful poem.
Stuck in the impossibility of the possibility. When you are willing to get something done and it's not appreciating effort or might be some obstacle that keeps making it a fiasco. In many cases, someone can still get out of it if an helper appears. It's really a painful experience. But who can come to rescue a man stuck in the unknown.

Well penned, Laura.

[Laura Kate]

Thank you so much Kay, I'm really glad you enjoyed this
Laura :)

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

The pleasure is mine, Laura.

[Einstein Noodle]

oh my...how terribly relatable says i! such a personal glimpse but hugely universal .. so many persons and places can fit into "Mute" ... for my self .. a difficult time as a very young person .. like many at the age .. wanting to be so much but so fearful of trying even just the tiniest bit :( for me these lines are the knock out ... after going ten rounds
"I'd sing but some one
might hear"
well done! brutally honest and emotive .. great stuff Laura .. its good to remember some of our struggles ... there is victory to be had eh!?
E.
ps. good Lord in Heaven i love this poem. well done!

[Laura Kate]

Thank you so much EN for a lovely and encouraging review! Much appreciated! :)
Laura