I want to scream, but have naught to say;
I want to quit, yet seize the day.
I want to rest, but ease slips by;
I want relief, yet cannot cry.

to just let go with worries fading,
to leave the past, with its degrading;
to live again, afresh, anew;
to love again, ablaze in you.

Set me free, that I might paint the sky
In hues with brightness lightning, shining high:
and build a forest fort for you and I --
a surreal dream, a love to ne’er untie.

I come to you on a horse of white
with dazzling eyes, your sparkling knight;
with no pretense, heart open wide -
I dream that you live at my side.

And if that love comes by one day
and turns your glowing heart my way,
I pledge as long as we may live
pristine and true, my love I’ll give.

*Catharsis - "A term used by Aristotle to describe some sort of
emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a
successful tragedy." - Thomas R. Arp