: (Into :) Poem by Ulysses Cabinatan

I dunno what to do here.
this place,
bleak and desolate
I want to go somewhere else
where I can change sorrows into joy
pains into gains,
fears into cheers

pant,
heave a deep sigh
this boredom
the place,
the smell,
the loneliness,
the unfriendly faces

this unwalled and unguarded jail
I’m physically free
but emotionally imprisoned
I wanna go somewhere else
where I can change tears into laughter,
uncertainties into hope,
bitterness into healing,
worries into ease.
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