All barriers

Planted stubbornly in front of the

Ever growing traffic line growing

Incessantly

Congested

More words

More words

And another  

And yet another

Pile in

so constricted

even the air can’t breath

 

A quick gulp

A burned throat

Cringing of the eyes

A bursting laugh and

suddenly words explode out like a busted aquarium

Swim free!

They pour hungrily into every container in sight

Slurring into glasses the width of a quarter

Slamming on the ground

Or was that your lips

To my fingers on the keyboard

Searching for liberty on the street

Into the gentle smile of a stranger

Or the malicious smile of a stranger

They find a place

but sometimes that place is no place at all

and sometimes

they walk alone on the rain washed streets

until someone finds them

Holds them under the lamp post

Realizing they are gems in a world of rocks

Free birds

No place words

And why does it take such a sinful liquid to let them

flow?

Just let go