Not Being Allowed.(Revised).

Not being allowed to touch you

Is not being allowed to live.

Not being allowed to kiss you

Is not being allowed to love.

Like a rabbit in a steel trap

Waiting for the blow to fall,

Not being allowed your kindness

Is not knowing kindness at all.

Last night I dreamed I held you

In the gentle dark of our bed,

But when I awoke this morning

My fists were punching the wall.

Not being allowed you near me

Is pure violence against who we are.

You are my voice, my true word,

Without you the silence is All.

I sit alone in my locked cell

Not able to take nor to give,

Not being allowed to hug you

Is not being allowed to live.

Trevor John Karsavin Potter.

November 27th. 2020. - December 1st. 2020.