Words

I don't feel right
Giving you my words
They pour from this body
Into the Universe.
Why should you
Have any right to them?

Why should you gather them up
And use them? They are mine.
Let them ring as they may.
Step away from my words, my thoughts.
I think
Therefore I am.

Yet ... I want you to take them.
Those words are me, my freedom,
And my captivity.
Take them, I do not want them anymore.
They are golden chains that bind me here.
Take what you want, I'll leave my words for you.

I'll trade my words.
Use them as you like.
I love this place,
Yet I long to be detached, to break free, to go home.
I'll trade it all away, all of this, all my words.
I only need these five

I want to go home.