You will forever by my Forerunner to Freedom

20th and oak, Portland OR

Description

Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skyward. I felt her flying but I wouldn't look upon her. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens, just as your memory has stitched it's weave into my mind. Out of my heart a bird flew skyward. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart, nor it ever will. ..... O my faith, my untamed knowledge, how shall I fly to your height and see with man's larger self penciled upon the sky when that is not the view I am to behold? How shall I turn this sea within me into mist, and move with you in space immeasurable? For you ask for my existence to be untouchable, yet you stand by not for the evolution of it. How can a prisoner within the temple behold it's golden domes if she may not face the gates? Walk with me into the next phase as I am your sister among the stars. How shall the heart of a fruit be stretched to envelop the fruit if the fruit was crushed before it could be picked? O my faith, I am in chains behind these bars of silver and ebony, and I cannot fly with you if you cannot allow me to feel as I do. I believe in the strength we hold between each other to mend something. A pain we both carried for many years. Your legs are tired. Rest yourself upon me and find a new way. I may not call upon you as I once did, but we may call upon each other in another way and I know we are capable for you have a face with a view as I do, too. Yet out of my heart you rise skyward as if I was but a dream, and it is my heart that holds you, and I shall be content just in having known you if that is all you can bear. You will forever be the forerunner of my freedom, for you've stifled my softness in a most beautiful way and I forever will be the daughter of the lion who was too much a burden to love. Challenge yourself to be the true man you know you are capable of being. Anger and spite may be easy and enticing, but you hold more potential. Walk with me again, my friend. In this life, or the next. I wait patiently.