It's Been A While...

Hello, new day,
May I have this dance?
It’s been too long since I’ve ridden the floor,
The steps feel so bizarre.
With my new breath I take in the night,
Fresh, cold, and silent.
So that your image can cast it’s light,
Bright, joyous, and loud.
I’ve been sleeping for far too long,
This skin feels not my own.
I cannot usurp this treacherous dream,
As if it were my bones.
And through your lips a gospel spread,
“Move forth and spread your wings.”
I find my feathers thick with tar,
Swallowed whole by wonder.
Should I be to die at this wisp-like hand?
Consumed by ideals?
I’ll breathe it in, swallow the night,
Give forth my resolve to be.
I shed my mantle, piece by piece,
Fragmenting the being once flesh.
To usurp the nightmare I lovingly became,
Of masks, cloak, and shade.
Forgive me; I am not myself yet,
Perhaps you’ll wait ‘till then.
There’s time to kill and steps to learn,
So fuck this hesitation.
May I have this dance,
Life, Love, and Forever?