Escape

Once too I hung on the brink listening to the melancholy cry of seagulls, their white bodies strewn out like prayer flags, tiny on the surface of the sea. Wishing I could cast all of life's pain away, a heavy shipment of regrets and shattered promises, let it all sail far away. In a desolate harbour enlightened only by the moon, a lone shadow casts itself onto the weed-strewn pavement. Feet itching to move but the brain with no destination to speak of. Flee to the sea or hide at home? Once too I stood on that abyss, always wondering about the end yet never of creating a new beginning. Poets question why our heart aches, pessimists say we've long forgotten our dreams, I ask why I wake up every morning. Until you made me understand. Your smile, ethereal beams of light, breaking through the morning frost of night. Your voice, a beckoning bell. Like a child, learning how to walk, I stumble and crawl away from the darkness. You called upon happiness from the depths of my heart where I didn't know it could ever exist.