Captive

 Thoughts going through my mind

Casually going about their business

Unconcerned that I exist

Then one have a change of heart

Becoming cemented taking a hold

Refusing to let go

Demanding to be given attention

If I desire living in peace or craved relaxation

Showing possibilities of new dimensions

Visualizing things that are tangible

Although the available material is nothing

Prodding me stop looking back

The past will never return

Mocking me why imagine what may happen

When you know it never will

Yet giving visions and imagination

Of thing that can be brought into being

Daring me to pursue these as dreams

Every possible reason why this cannot be

Does not wipe away the reality

For an image is stamped

On the walls of consciousness

While courage takes its stand

Opening the eyes to what is on hand

Between the reality and the dream

Lay the seeming unconquerable mountain

But the mountain does not block the dream

It only stand in the way

For through the mountain

You have visions of what the end can be

And restlessness becomes the impetus

To create something out of nothing

Or live in misery

Never embracing peace of mind

But fully knowing that it is crazy

Still you begin.

Taking the first step in that journey

That you have no idea where it shall end

© Prince Bradford 2015