Do Not Restrain Me (It's All From Watching T.V.)
Do not restrain me.
I have a silver screen under my eyes,
And behind it a world of dynamism.
Do not contain me,
Within the rises and falls of men who lived
as I, and died just as I will.
They invented
The word –
I'll reinvent
The world,
If you dare allow me to.
Do not portray me,
As deluded. Thrust me out to the world
as the largest of delusions.
Say,
“Look at this creature,
Open her skull. See all the bright fantasies
She creates for herself and her own.”
Do not say
“Ain't it funny?”
Say,
“Ain’t it beautiful?”
If you lived with the bursting heavens
That you’re trapping within my
head,
You would truly know it is.
But do not hold me back;
For there is also a mad world in there,
Teeming with the terrifying traitors,
I once thought I may trust.
They once held me back.
They thrust me out to the world when I was not
ready
to find
out,
how little light would simmer through my screen.
They said,
Play
With words;
Sing
To us,
As if we deserved it.
Write us the love stories and lullabies
We tempted you with at birth.
No,
I told them,
As I told the men that rose and fell hundreds of years ago,
Who lived just as I and died as I will.
No, I told them,
Do not restrain me.