Guarded Gates Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Guarded gates, emotions sealed inside,
where nightmare walls won’t fall till trust is shared,
wait pseudo-sheltered, shuttered weight, unpaired,
preferring fearful hide to bright world wide.
It is teared veil which heavy hangs, divide
emprisons spirit where, no weakness bared,
restless soul, self by self scared, scarce dared
to scan horizons, bottles Fortune's tide.
Complicity can never coincide.
with pre-conditions, feelings rarely aired.
Years' tears must out. Anxieties repaired,
imagined blame, shame, dissipated, cried.
Liberation from within unites
soul to whole soul, tears wail's veil, scales true heights.

(11 December 2008)