Bound Poem by Matthew Holloway

Bound by pen and ambition
The choice to write as a free man
The subject matter and style
Kept caged within the mind
For fear of the reviews
Can a readership be truly ready
To take a poem at it's value
Without prior judgement
No, the time does not feel right
The binds are taut and cutting
The freedom is not free at all
So care and attention is paid
To each word, every line
Fear being that knotted wire
On the wrist of the writing hand
To the desk of living life
Bound by pen and ambition
I write as best I can