I look to the skies
As my body falls limp
My limbs feel numb
My brow feels heavy.

I am about to pass out
As I hear someone calling
Where are you going
Your work has yet to finish.

My eyes take to the skies once more
How I dream to be as free at the birds
How I wish I could be as light as a cloud
I wish to escape my prison.

But as I keep on looking
I realize something crucial
The birds are not chirping so freely anymore
and the cloud is subject to the wind's current.

I get back on my feet
Pushing through another long day
Hoping, just waiting
Until the day that I am released from my prison.

this is your purpose
meant to push
one purpose
of many

one foot
in front of the other
feeling like lead
shallow breathing
press on
one foot
in front of the other
until you
can dance again