New Poem: Rainbow

My dear,
how I wish I could pluck
from your troubled mind
all the doubts and fears that
haunt you so.

If I could,
I would take you by the hand
and seek out a rainbow to show you.
Without saying a word,
we could simply breathe together,
we could simply be together.

If I could,
I would walk with you
to every last mountaintop,
and let you sit until all the chaos
had settled within your heart,
so that you could again stand
and see this world with the eyes
of a newborn baby.

My dear,
how I wish you could
do the same for me,
showing me, again and again,
that all my cages were built
with my own two hands,
and the key is in my own pocket,
waiting for me to unlock the door.

~ Matthew Foley