Poetical prisoner

You are welcome in my heart

and you can hold me by the hand

but if you peek inside my mind

there's things you'd never understand...



Through the automatic motions goes the nomadic mime

tumbling face-forward to stay ahead of his climb

Misunderstood, as he's ahead of his time

Ahead of his mind...ahead of his rhyme


Crying, sighing, stumbling blind

his fingers moving rapidly towards words he's trying to find

but a sign-language rhyme doesn't rhyme when it's signed

A poetical prisoner trapped inside his own mind


The unspoken word his claim to fame

and charades is more than just a game

No one knows his sorrow, no one knows his shame

and no one knows his pain, for nobody knows his name


In a box, in a box...sometimes he's always in a box

In his heart he hears laughter, in his mind; heartfelt talks

Sadly-ever-after, he can't break those mental locks

that create a path of blocks and a garden full of rocks


The sun gets blotted out from the midnight sky

as blackbirds grin from perches high

A constant, quiet tear rolls down his eye

Say bye to the bad guy...bye to the sad guy


Au revoir, sad mime...fare thee well, we say

We feel better about ourselves by watching your display

You made the pain and the rain of our lives go away

if only for a moment...if only for a day


Through the winds of March, the mime marches on

He's long forgotten the face the paint is painted upon

He prepares tomorrow's sorrows to be played at dawn

In a world of kings and queens, the mime is merely a pawn


But this is now and that was then

Yesterday...or way back when

I won't go back there ever again

and I may be known to no other men


I don't know them, but I know me

and I know what it is that I want to be

so I cry to the heaven's "Lord, hear my plea"

"I am not of this world...and I long to be free"



I know not what tomorrow brings, nor what I'm searching for

but on this day the Lord has made, the mime will weep no more

A comedy of tragedies has kept me all alone

until I turned my voice to God above...to whom my name is known