Redemption

I walk Alone Seeking redemption Down small pathway The road is blocked I can’t get through I have two options: I can go into the woods, I can go into fog, where I can’t see I choose woods The woods Expecting fear, but Not obtaining it, Retreats I walk until I find a trail I follow this trail Until it leads me to a castle When I try to enter, I am stopped by a gatekeeper The gatekeeper says to me: You cannot come in But you may bask in the beauty I wonder: Why bask in beauty When you can’t truly Enjoy it? I kill the gatekeeper And let myself inside I have become a monster. But I am strong; that’s good right? Nothing can break me Nothing will happen that I don’t Agree with I am in control I can do whatever I go to the gardens They are beautiful But I don’t see that All I see is darkness I see the flaws, The corrections that Should be made I come to a rose patch My name is Rose I compare the roses to myself The flaws, the need for Improvement I see that in myself I fall to the ground And the earth opens up I am almost taken To the center of the earth But something catches me A bird, but not a real bird A figment of imagination It carries me Away, into the sky But we land on the High wall of the castle I ask it: Why did you bring me here? Before it answers, it takes off Into the world I look around for a sign, Something to show me a reason But I find nothing Absolutely nothing No dirt, no cracks, no Flaws, nothing wrong Nothing I go inside the castle To find it’s much bigger on the Inside than it appears on the Outside No one is in the castle Why did the gatekeeper not let me in? There is no one here All here is silence No creaks in the floors Or in the doors I flee from this terrible place It reminds me of my Imperfection, my wrongs I’d rather die than Stay here I run away