Am I not to breathe your beauty ?
Blessed by the summer breeze
Your warm sigh whispers upon me

Is it sustenance or punishment ?
To baptize myself ignorant
In devotion dipped in patience

Like wild flowers bloom from freedom
The captivity that caught me on
Is undoing my becoming

I won’t falter but I will fall
Hurt, break & suffer
Most of all

I won’t recognize myself
Failure shames all that is left
As I lose what I thought to have