Biography - Me

I let my hopes be fed to me;
This was my first mistake;
The dreams that, soon, were dead to me
Lay floating in my wake –

I let my first dreams forget me,
And, knowing this, I have now gone
As far as these burdens will let me,
I sacrifice them to go on –

I do not miss them, not at all;
I recognized the chains
That tied me with the siren’s call
Of things I cannot change –

I no longer live for dying,
Like the others with my face,
I am finally through trying
To find a better place;

Each lives and falls in you and I,
Each breathes with our every breath;
And the world is not so unfair as we cry
It to be, from our birth until our death;

I want freedom from all things,
I want nothing from anyone else;
I want the wisdom that experience brings
I want back all the pieces of myself –

I want to rise on high with stars,
I want to sing a thousand songs,
I want to split each of the bars
That held me captive for so long;

I want to break the strongest horses
And ride them off into the sun,
I want to watch the rivers run their courses
To the sea, becoming one;

I want to meet the world, and,
In so doing, meet myself;
Hope, I could never understand,
Through the eyes of someone else -

I want to break the pain unbreakable,
I want a lie to fight;
I want a purpose irresistible,
A wrong to be made right;

I want a goddess to live inside me,
I want an angel at my side,
I want nothing else beside me
But my strength and but my pride;

I want an epic, not an odyssey,
A life, no more, no less;
I want to know the worst in me,
But only keep the best –

I want to live and go on living,
Know it all through words unspoken,
Taking of and giving,
As the heart remains unbroken.