A Lack of Confidence

Thoughts flow swiftly, filling the mind

wanting to leave

to run, jump, bound in the world.

Yet as they depart

their energy lessens,

slowly slowly they retrace steps

Hesitate.

Tickling the back of the throat

concealing themselves in the crevices between great white polar walls

stumbling over the red terrain

Until finally, step blinking into the sunlight

poised on red lips

only to fall flat, as words

picked over, overthought