A Dry Cheek

Pick to let it come forth
no matter how much it hurts.
Let the tears come out
along with the blood from your mouth.
Admit your downfalls
to release your soul from entrapment.
Allow your heart to have a rest
from its self-imprisonment.
Open the floodgates that have yet
to allow anything either out or in.
Allow it all to go out and in
and allow it to happen again and again.
Allow your soul the chance
to escape from the trap being laid.
Allow your spirit the chance
to escape from yet again being prey.
Let down that guard that you use
to protect yourself from the world.
Let down that guard that does nothing
but hurts that which has already been hurled...
at least by most...
and let life happen to you once again
instead of the prayer that it passes you by
just so that you can, at the end,
say your cheek is finally set to stay dry.
Allow the flow to escape if that
is what your body and mind needs
for without the removal of doubt and fear
it will never be your spirit that can feed.
Just let it happen to you,
before it is too late to.