Escape

It's funny, 

How things can trap you 

How a word can hold on and not let go 

How a moment can keep your mind in chains 

How your thoughts can attack 

and your emotions shatter 

Leaving you in a mess you can't clean 

A moment you can't reconcile

A nightmare you can't comprehend 

and a cell you can't escape 

It's funny 

How things can free you 

How a word let's you escape 

How a song makes you comprehend 

How a line makes you reconcile  

How a poem cleans the mess 

Making sense of the chains 

Guarding against the attack 

Making a new image of the cracked glass  

Until you can let go 

Until you're free