Free

Whirpools in my head and heart
Unexpectedly it starts
Future uncertain once again
Still I sit here, just a man
Suffocated by the weight
More than just one man can take
Boiling, burning in my core
Shipwrecked on a distant shore
Waves of flames crash on my head
Surely I know that I’m dead

28 years before my eyes
Clanging chains drown out my cries
Strength receding deep inside
This is what it’s like to die

Shimmers of light pierce the deep
Freed again, this life I keep
Can two somehow become more
Than all the lives we’ve lived before?
Chains fall off like wind-blown ash
Yet I wonder, “Will it last?”
Answers now, questions no more
I stab my heart and let it pour
And now the secret’s out, I’m sure
My freedom lies upon the floor