Letter to the Universe

Please tell me that

Ultimate Truth

the one that will finally

put my Soul at ease.

Guide me, please

to that sublime path

somewhere in the in-between

where my heart

won't be assaulted

with the thistles on the brambles,

or sliced into neat little diamond shards

from the jagged edges

of unspent dreams

taunting me from

the gold flecked streets.

I just want to

breathe

without my chest

caving in.

I just want to

stretch my happiness

without it breaking,

snapping me back

to my painful place again.

I don't want

to play

anymore games

of pretend.

Please give me

some reprieve

from the strife

while I still have

some Life to Live.