Dancing on Thin Ice: Embracing Vulnerability

The walls are closing in 

Walls I’ve built for myself to protect me from the world 

They no longer serve their purpose 

They just wall me off from human interaction  

So, they’re closing in 

While I search for ways to dismantle them  

I long for more interaction and deeper interaction but my walls 

Are closing in 

So, I must tear them down if I am to survive  

Because they’re crumbling while they’re closing in 

Threatening to suffocate me and destroy me 

But the world is a dangerous place 

But I will dance where the ice is thin 

I will defeat the barriers that I built 

I will become the person I’m meant to be 

The person I desire to be 

So, help me tear down these walls that I’ve built 

I’m afraid of the outside but I’m desperate to be free of these walls 

I’m desperate to change 

I’m desperate to be free 

Cause I built my walls so high that none could climb over them 

And I built them thick so none could pierce them 

Yet somehow my angel pierced them so long ago and broke them down  

But after she left, I built them stronger 

Now it needs to be my choice and my battle to break them down 

And defeat them once and for all 

Maybe the only way out is over 

If so, I’ll build a mountain inside and jump off the cliff to the outside 

Where I’ll revel in the danger and dance again under the pale moonlight 

Where the ice is thin and treacherous 

But where others skate soon shall I join  

Because man was not meant to spend his days alone 

Surrounded by walls 

He was meant to be with others free and wild  

Like mustangs on the prairie