gravity

Words frozen on my tongue

Unable to escape

Seized in a prison of my creation

Thoughts like a dense fog

Hang pensively in the air

Heavy with the weight of good intention

And the shuffle of feet on streets beneath me

Bring quiet and ease; a stillness to my being

A familiar cadence

There’s a gravity pulling me in all directions

Always

Swallowing me whole

Write new chapters to my story each night

By daylight it all looks the same

I’m void again

Sunlight breaking across my face every day

For the first time

Buried beneath a million stories untold and unfinished

Tucked neatly behind all the words I’ll never say

That’s where you’ll find me