Refuge

There's no place that's safe.
No place to keep, to hide,
to tell of the feelings that are deep inside.
No place except fot the already crowded world
that's within her mind.
No other place to seek refuge from,
No other place to speak out.
Pages flutter to the ground,
Ripped as they were from the steel ring binding.
Not a word,
Not an emotion was left sacred.
They left her with no place to go.
Desperation hits like a storm
and it's all she could do to keep from breaking down.
Free me! She silently cries.
Her eyes dull from the pain of a thousand unshed tears.
Trust me! Let me be who I am!
She thrusts a hand out
into the surrounding chaos of light and dark.
Desperately searching for a solution, for a way out.
Groping for any helping hand.
Straining her eyes for the smallest sliver of clarity.
There's only one place left for her
but she hesitates to take it.
Her battered sanity is all she has left,
that measure of control is all she has.
She can't afford to lose it.
She can't afford to let go,
To answer the alluring promises of
another world that bends to her will alone.
But she knows that someday,
she might not have the strength to keep
turning from the siren-like call.