Inner Desires Poem by Sarah Child

There is a void- deep within my chest
I feel it with each breath
With every beat of my heart- it grows
Spreading through my body like a cancer

It longs to free itself
To feel the wind on its face
And let the sun reflect in its bottomless obsidian eyes
To be in control

I lock it up- in the deepest part of my being
Away from prying eyes- away from the world
I lock it away in a darker- more chaotic place than hell
Away in my mind

I want to free it- my most inner desires
But I dare not
If I ever free myself
I will surely go mad