Inside Me

Inside Me
It is an awful place
Where crayola crayons
Are bound in clumps of color
By black electrical tape

Inside Me
Each color yearns
To spread light, energy, me
Standing all together
Bright tips salute the sky

Endless potential
Possibilities
Electrical tape

Inside Me
There is a monarch butterfly
Tied to a sunflower
Speckled wings pushing through air
Yearning to spread light, energy, me

Endless potential
Possibilities
Electrical tape

A field of flowers
I can see them
Flutter, flutter
Try to fly

Disillusionment
Discouraging

Love, for me,
Is construction paper hearts
In a mason jar.
Tragically.