Dancing On My Heartbreak Poem by Lynn Anne Brown

Patterns form like memories
Painted on the sand
Momentary Visions
I cannot understand

Memories of Stories
I once understood
Pass before me eyes
Like some twisted Robin Hood

Dancing on my Heartbreak
They shout out with Glee
All you have to do is
Give up your liberty.

You can join our chorus
Any time you choose
Self respect and freedom
Are all you have to lose

The scripts already written
The Words are all set down
All that we require
Is you let your spirit drown

With promises of power
And false security
They tried to seduce me
Into conformity

But when I tried to follow
The route that they had lain
My heart cried out in anger
My body bowed in pain

The way was much to narrow
And the road was much too straight
And the punished me severely
If I tried to deviate

They whipped at my emotions
With their snickers and their sneers
Attacking my ideas
Manipulating fears

There's only one truth they'd say
And you must it well
'Cause if you don't accept it
You're gonna go to hell

They looked at me in horror
When I became aware
And asked them how they'd send me
When I'm already there

They told me I was crazy
I must be quite insane
Accusing me of being
Both arrogant and vain

They told me that I needed hep
That I was just confused
That I was being selfish
I wasn't being used

And when I started asking
Why the kept me in a bind
All I got was rhetoric
Placebo's for my mind

And I wanted to believe them
I wanted to remain
I wanted to be in their
Good graces once again

And though I tried to please them
In everything I did
My soul cried out for freedom
No it would not be hid

So now, Dancing on my Heart Break
I shout out with Glee
You can keep your chorus
I'll take my liberty.