Sifting

I sifted through memories as I stood in the hour glass I massaged the inner folds my mind In this dreamy oasis, where the sun beams dance upon my back Where the wind whispers secrets And the birds escaped the far reaches of my grasp The silence of this place is eternal I inhale its loneliness and exhale my frustrations The reflection of light bounces from this boundless glass prison My eyes have been burned as I blindly try to hunt for my freedom Venturing miles from where began my journey As the sand rolls around my feet And gathers around my neck I am forced into a state of submission As I helplessly reach for the sky filling my lungs with one last intake of oxygen I heave my legs against the side of the glass Struggling for freedom I fight for survival Kicking and Screaming I am frenzied, as the seconds on the timer are ticking Because in that one lapse of time I am reminded of a the moment of tenderness When your voice sang glories in my ears Moments of tenderness explode across the horizon in my mind The sand clings to every surface of my body The reverberating crack of my prison echoes throughout this world Freedom is within my grasp As I cough up miles of desert brushing off the broken glass and blood that scar my body My senses are overwhelmed Residing in the singular joy that I am not the sole existence Freedom