Let me be free
I've thrown it all away.
But you know what?
There's nothing
holding me back anymore.
No pressure, no tension.
I unfurl my wings,
like a butterfly's first flight.
The wind bears me up,
Weightless, joyous.
Nothing, No one, can stop me.
Now I reach for the stars,
the splash of glitter against dark velvet.
I turn and stare at the world
that I left behind.
I don't recognize it anymore.
I see the wars,
the pain, the fighting.
Everybody's subject
To the unending strain.
That, ultimately, we put on ourselves.
I see the poor,
Starved and sick.
Why doesn't someone
give up a little,
if only to help one person?
I see the rich,
Fat and ignorant.
Wallow in their grandeur,
Oblivious to the trials
of the world I knew.
I see the children,
the future, the hope, of life,
Minds shaping to be,
an ignorant, rich,
Mindless slave of the tide.
I see the teenagers,
awkwardly in-between.
Trying to understand,
yet there are the bystanders
who ignore the danger so close at hand.
I close my eyes;
imagine a world
with peace and happiness.
Try as I may,
I see no reality.
I see it all,
and realize,
If it wasn't this way,
I wouldn't be here to change it.
I would be as blind as the rest.
Better to be
tightly bound,
helping the cause,
than free,
unable to move.
I think,
and soon the sun
arises to a new beginning,
I'm shaken awake,
and I promise to make a change.
Not all dreams can become a reality. Those which do, happen because someone works toward them. Let me be free.
This is actually a dream that Aang has, when he's feeling hopeless, and upset about the failed invasion. In the second stanza, the unfurl my wings part, that is supposed to be like when he was opening the Seventh Chakra, and his Spirit was kinda above the Earth…
In the end, he wakes up, and realizes that if the world wasn't the way it was, with some people just ignoring the war, and some people feebly trying to help, and yet others waiting for someone else, him, to end it and fight for them, he wouldn't be there to save it.
I wrote this song a little while ago, a couple weeks or so ago. It speaks for me, and it speaks the unspoken dreams of those who cannot speak aloud their wish.
For all my readers, for all my friends, for all those who conspire to be something.
--iamtheblindbandit--
PS. This is going to be a collection of poems/oneshots. The first few will be centric on a single character, then later they will include several. I'm open for ideas, anything is fine, with pairings: Kataang, Tokka, Maiko (or anybody else 'cept Katara or Toph paired with Zuko), and maybe a couple crack pairings too. Just no Zutara or Sukka (although friendship between these are fine). The stories suggested can be anything at all; a(a)ngst, romance, pure fluff, adventure, battle, family, friendship...
Review please!!