Within These Walls

Within these walls

I can't hear anything

I can't see anything

I can't touch anything

I can't feel anything

Within these walls

I can't find the rhythm

That my body yearns for

It hungers and thirsts

To move through the cycles

Of the moon each month

To rise and fall with the sun

Each day and night

To find it's pulse

In the slow and constant churning

Of the earth beneath my feet

Without being able to feel and touch and see and hear

The universe that guides me

I am lost

If I live each day of my life

Within a set of walls

Physical wooden beams and sheetrock

The mental boundaries of my mind

My emotional protections from heartbreak

If I use all these walls

To hold life at arm's length

Am I even really alive

Can I learn how to live

Outside these walls

So I can finally hear and touch and feel

All that the universe holds for me

All that I'm meant to experience

So I can eventually be

Who I'm meant to be