End Of An Era Poem by David Harris

Yesterday I broke the chains
that had bound me tight.
Severed the links that had threatened
to suffocate me from the pleasures I had.

So closes the end of an era
that had eaten away part of me
and would have left me
an empty husk.

I have wanted to do it
for a long, long time,
but each time pleading voices
had dragged me back.

Now the end of an era
has left me free and relaxed.
I am again my own man
free to do the things as I please.

No more torment of trying
to please others
with what they wanted of me.
I can sit in peace once more.

Listen to the songs
that the winds have to play.
Listen in a golden silence
of the tiny birds on the wing.

I can reconstruct my independence
to the way I want it to be
and relax in freedom that
the end of an era has finally come.

I will no longer have to pretend
I am someone who is not really me.
Just sit back and relax now
with no worries to bother me.



27 May 2012