Freedom

Rain falls down on the footpath

while thunder rocks the ground with its roar.

A light turns to shadow behind the window of a house

to hide the fact that someone's still home.

Water taps gently on the front door

and silence screams “nobody's here.”

Lightning flashes all through the yard

and lights a pair of eyes behind the glass.

She waits alone behind a curtain's shroud

and burns like the stars above the clouds.

Yet like nobody sees the sky tonight,

nobody will see her.

In her mind stirs a troubled, frightened dream

that can only hide, but hopes to be free.

The gray of the clouds reflects the walls

and the prison-like aura they've always held.

The thunder subsides as silence returns,

and words in her mind speak aloud

to remind her that she'll never be free,

but from the freedom to escape.

But when they speak, she understands

that for words to win, they must be heard.

And she earned her freedom when she cast them from her mind.