Here’s a door

Shut or open

It shuts me in or let’s me out

A door shuts in your face

Or stands in the way

There are things in doorways

Places , memories, people

Blocking the way

Looming and shifting , ghosts of the past 

 

Trying to see through to the void beyond 

Courage to keep it shut 

Or courage to open it

To let in the breeze or to keep the comfort of fetid air 

Open it 

Look beyond

Searing light

Burning the cornea 

I’m blind , stumbling into the unknown

But breathing the breath of freedom

Look back a smoke filled room 

Dimly lit with dark corners 

Lurking forms, shifting shadows

Shut the door

Lock and bolt

Gone forever

Blue water blue sky

Blue whale

The ocean beckons 

 

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