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Courage
You have left me, in a deep despair
Love held little concept to me
Before I found in your eyes
A passage to a strange and introverted life
Is that what love is?
Going so far inside yourself
You fear you may never come out alive
And one day, when they leave you
The curtain - ripped back
You stand, in front of an audience
Stunned, and silent - yourself.
My mind reels, my tongue preludes
Patterns of thought, that I can’t understand
Foreign and terrible jargon
That I know
Has always been within me.
You have woken something in me
So different to the body I see everyday
Its image, if it had one, would not be that
Of a small, pale girl
With amber hair.
And because of this, I don’t know myself
I touch a body that feels like somebody else.
And roam the corners of my room
Trying to find
The courage to fight.
