stages (2009)

will there ever come a time
when the melodies that dance around my mind
will escape to find
their stage?

the one place
where not even hurt will find a trace
of a lack of grace?

where freedom rages
through mirrored rooms and cages
as it forcefully wages war
ripping through the pages
of thoughts looking for their stages.

the melodies find their feet
mind and body meet
soul and spirit sweep up the pain,
and its contained.

all heart has release
to dance
a romance
in which passions pant for peace

there has come a time
when the melodies that once danced around my mind
have broken out to find
their stage.