Close Poem by Yohan Confectioner

The only way
To get out of it
Is to get into it
To look it in the eye
And let it
Blink first

You don't leave
Your burning house
Through the backdoor
That's an escape
You walk out
Through the front door
The same door
you walked in through


There's flight
And there's fight
I choose the fight
So bring on all the smoke
Because that's the only way
I'll rise from the ashes

You want to climb a mountain
To find yourself
Go ahead
You want to bury your thoughts
In the words of others
Go ahead

Don't run from
Something you dread
Walk into
Something you love
Head up
Shoulders back
Graciously
With a quiet power
Like flames that are
A forgotten lore
Scars that are proud
To be a part of your skin

sit alone
In the darkness
Till the loneliness
Nods back

There was no other way
And there never will be