If you lament each day behind a rusted complexion,
All that will lie before you is distance.
You’re tangled up behind a tightly shut door,
Crouched down in the corner of a dimly lit room.
But if you unlock the windows that have begun to fog up,
And jump from the sill,
The real world is out there waiting for you.
You can choose to wait quietly for the journey to end,
Or search out all your hopes that were collecting dust.
On the other side of these tracks,
Is a bullet-train track leading on past an old factory;
An expansive sea of gray,
Paired with all the fantasies born from it.
You’re tangled up behind a tightly shut door,
Crouched down in the corner of a dimly lit room.
But if you unlock the windows that have begun to fog up,
And jump from the sill,
The real world is out there waiting for you.