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Dear walls that protected me

Its been two years since I was with you

I wanted to say it's not you, but me.

I started to change as I aged and grew

You kept me confined, you see

You closed your box onto the younger me.



Dear walls who kept me safely away

From the dreaded windows to peer

I looked out to see a new day

It's dawning mixing my innocence with fear

You see walls, you hid me thinking outsiders as "They"

Keeping me ignorant of what's out there everyday



Dear walls look at me now!

I left your arms for the outside world

Where I walked out to ask what, where, why, how?

You walls kept me away and lies you hurled

At me and I look through the windows and wrinkled my brow

Why did you hide the truth from me for so long? How?



Well walls, you kept me in the dark for too long

Showing and telling me lies of a pure place

You walls denied me the truth fearing I'd get too strong

That one day I would slowly break free and embrace

The true outside world which was perfect in my young eyes

But today, I go back to visit you walls and the truth is realized.



~3/12/09