Head over heels, in grass as tall as my eyes.
I step in the world of wrong.
Where the peaches grow too ripe, unpicked on trees.
Where birds can sing out of tune, in a throng.
The grass, a flush green from the summer sun,
Flattens beneath my feet,
Which are pounding out a beat from a drum.
I feel like running barefoot, and sing.
I feel like I can get away from my sin.
Of being free. Of being rumpled, always on the edge of fray.
But then I am on the edge.
Facing the opposite of me is proper.
The word reminds me of noses stuck in the air.
Prime cut meat stuck into ironed straight clothes.
No sign of a flair.
No sign of that fire that burns and rampages inside me.
To be free.
The side of wrong is not my birth right.
I step on the well manicured grass.
The fakeness of it crunches,
the artificial green hurts my sight.
This is sweet home, my safe haven?
I think not. I turn to my other world.
And take a step back.
To being free again.