In A World That Is Free! Poem by Gule Rukhsar

The chaos of my soul wants to dance freely,
but this world is too small
to let it be free.
I have made a golden cage
with a maple tree,
and I have embellished it
with a beautiful scenery—
a world of my own,
a whole universe inside of me.
A world of utter joy and deep pain;
it is both that inspire me,
but in a world that is free,
in a world that is free.

I will spread my wings
that are painted blue,
but a blue that is tainted red in hue,
red with the blood of my desires,
the desires that shattered me
into a million pieces.
I will gather each drop of red
and paint a canvas wide,
a canvas where the sea meets the sky,
a sky where the larks sing a melody
of hope, of love and peace,
but in a world that is free,
in a world that is free...



~10.08.2018