Locked Away
Here my body wastes and dies
Despite all those tears and cries
This love has taken all of me
Like the relentless powerful sea
Battered against unyielding rocks
Crush by solid granite blocks
My body is completley lost
My spirit touched by old Jack Frost
As deeply and strong I strike
With my long and bright knife
So I cut and peel back my skin
And reveal what has grown within
Something stronger and harder too
A shiny new skin to start anew
My body has changed hard as stone
It can now withstand life’s cyclone
My bones are made of alloy steel
My skins sensation I no longer feel
My outer shell can come to no harm
Impenetrable even by any firearm
My eyes are like hardest of stones
Made to withstand all life’s unknowns
My spirit is now safely locked within
Away from the worlds pain and sin
Warming through but only slow
It still has a great distance to go
I’m safe for now from all the hurt
But it’s paid for with a body inert
From behind dead eyes I observe
Through emotional armour I preserve
Waiting for the final day to come
Where once more I can walk in the sun
Copyright © Anthony Mathias | Year Posted 2007
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