Lost

Firefly

A deep dark wood

Surrounding me

Towering pine trees all

Around

Locking me in this

Tiny cell

Forcing me back

Into my shell

I'm stuck inside

My own head

Those fantasies

And dreams

Fly by

I watch how each of them

Diminished

And died

'Cause hope never

Came walking by

I run forward

Blinded

And flailing my arms

My hair catching in the leaves

Owls hooting

Opening their beaks

But I can't hear

A single squeak

The world's moving past me

I can't hold it back

People rushing by

Like a dream

Except - it's a nightmare

That never ends

And traps me

Deep inside its seams

I lean out

Those invisible bars

Just for a tiny breath

A tiny taste

Of the freedom that lies

Out of my reach

And watch as

It mocks me

Through grinning teeth

My extended arm

Struggling to hold itself up

My fingertips wiggling

In the breeze

And suddenly I feel

A tickly thing

Beating its wings

Against my skin

I curl my fingers

Into a fist

And in the gaps I see

A light

That tiny light

A little firefly

Its back glowing

Ever so bright

And so

I let it go

Into the night

And with it I send

My hope

My life