The skeletons in my cupboard
Can rattle like old men’s teeth
All calm on
the silent surface
All chaos
and noise beneath
One out of
all of my secrets
Could make
your face turn white
Some little
bird told me mum’s the word
I have an
invisible light
From before
I can remember
To the now
as I sit right here
I never saw
skin-tight blackness
I never got
imprisoned by fear
I never got
cornered by problems
I swam the
African Nile
I never
lost hope on a futile task
I ran the
additional mile
I bowed to
the truth and endured the pain
I stood on
Everest’s peak
I knelt and
prayed on the cold stone floor
To nurture
my sense of meek
My body is
pure
My heart is
sure
I’m calm
when the crowd doth jeer
I oppose
the inertia of laziness
I oppose
the resistance of fear
I never got
blinded by anger
I beat my
personal best
I rejoiced
in my enemy’s triumphs
Yet I’m
bigger than my boasts suggest
When
everyone fumbles in darkness
Exposed to
the pitch of night
That’s when
I’m free
As I can
see
I’m lit by
invisible light
