A Familiar Paradise

I am struggling in this world

I feel choked and suffocated

My thoughts are dragging me down

Like weeds in a flourishing garden

I want to escape, I need to breathe

The smog is suffocating me

Getting into my lungs

And turning them black

I want to go back to my place

The place where I felt loved

I need to be in a familiar paradise

Surrounded by love and goodness

I need the peacefulness and calm

To be filled with the joy

And like a blossoming flower

Full of colour and energy

Jo Anne Kennedy

November 2014