Close your eyes

Hmm

I am so easily thrown off by you

Yet, i do not question

I make no attempt to approach you

I walk in, do what I got to do and then leave

Maybe our eyes meet for a few seconds but then I just keep on walking by

My concern is minimal

My soul set on keeping a focused mind

Which also requires a focused heart

Or more appropriately put, a dormant heart

One that does not wonder

It is forced in like a wolf into a cave by hunters

But not killed

Kept alive

Tamed and soon the fire of its once glorious eyes start to fade to dull black circles

But it still maintains that fighting spirit

It's just controlled

It turns away from the situations that it previously fell for

It can stand by even when it sees you start to disappear

It keeps its eyes forward its head straight

Never speaking unless spoken to

Even then it is barely a few kind words in reply then silence

The eyes forward its head straight

It can do this

Day in day out

Without question

But some days

It howls, its fists thunder against that steal cage

Some days you get a little too close to the steal bars

With each approaching step you burn at its defenses

At its discipline

And when you finally lay your hand on the bars

Thunder crashes in over head and the creation is right up against your face

The fire in its eyes again reignited and burning so bright it lights up your own

The drums start beating and so do the fists

They bang against the steel bars crying to be let free

Again and again

As you back away in fear or acceptance

You start to see changes from within the cage

The cries of an ocean

The shouting of flames

You see darkness

and you see light

Unhappiness and joy

But there are the things that you don't see

You see Courage but never fear

Sorrow but never regret

Then at the very end

you see the creation behind the multitude of other creations

The beast that hides the man within

The might that keeps the expression of kindness away

The thunder of gunfire that silences the call for peace

The cry of rage that buries the purpose

The necessary lie that hides the damaging truth

You are the truth

The truth that could bring me thundering to the ground

Please don't view me as the single ray of light

For i am the whole spectrum

From the brightness of yellow

To the peaceful white

All the way to the harsh black

My purpose changes

Do not judge me on the colour you first see from a flickering lamp

Do not judge me on the last colour you see either

But judge according only to what colour you choose to see within me

Salvation is yours