Untethered, wild, mad
My thoughts drown in the dark or are drawn to the stars
Ocean floor or the skies above
I look for little cracks to pull it all apart
I don't color inside the lines
It's smudges and torn pages
I don't fit inside a box
It's dissent and sand storms
Don't waste a boundary line around me
I carve doors on the edges
Don't build a box for safety
I want to burn it all
Untethered, wild, mad
My thoughts drown in the dark or are drawn to the stars
Ocean floor or the skies above
I look for little cracks to pull it all apart
I don't color inside the lines
It's smudges and torn pages
I don't fit inside a box
It's dissent and sand storms
I will tear your multiple choice papers
Darling, I make up my own tests
I will risk everything, put my life on the line, fall into an abyss if I have to
Just so that I can be me
Untethered, wild, mad
Not elegant, not coherent, not always sensible
All that's left of me are my thoughts
Sit beside me and I will listen to you battling it
I will play the trumpet of victory if your thoughts are sharp enough to cut mine
Don't waste a boundary line around me
I carve doors on the edges
Don't build a box for safety
I want to burn it all
Don't make my options your business
I don't play by the rules
Untethered, wild, mad
All that's left of me are my thoughts
I stay still, soaked in the rains,
My pupils freeze, peas and thin ice;
Daggers nail my splintered feet
Tangled roots sprout on mud.
When nature steps away
The curtain tears away too;
Death steps into light;
Earth feeds on flesh.
We are but proxies,
To the forests thinned out,
To the bees disappeared,
To the cultures destroyed
Do you hear the harvest bells toll
Stay...
No way out of these walls
Stay...
Pay the price
Seeds of new earth
Pay the price
Fall to rise
