Rootless

Oh drinking fool
with your drunken heart
You don't have to be
a beautiful disaster
You are not chaos
Your heart is a maze
and you feel trapped
by the walls and ceilings
that have you blocked out

You find yourself locked in
Your once open expanses
your endless valleys
have been taken over
by a maze of high walls
Running round and round
crashing into dead ends
getting more and more lost
more frantic as you go--

Stop!

Oh dear heart,
You need to be set free!
I'm watching you,
falling,
leaning, bending, broken
like a rootless tree
Your mind is twisting
like gnarled, knotted branches
You're rotting to your core

Slow down,
Find the living waters
take root by the streams
take a deep breath
and drink deep
Restore life to your core
be rotten no more
Cease to be lost
in the maze of your heart

© copyright by Michèle Aimée Lahaie, 2010