Its my birthday today

a twenty-something more 'plight'

climbed, to fall back down

with newest found fears and lacking the intellect

to stop me from howling

like a bitten hyena

it's my birthday today

and I have only been greeted by my dear old friends

the darkness, the sadness, the insomnia

and the best of it all...

depression

but they doesn't

stop me from baking a cake

with burnt edges

and leaking whipped cream

or decorating it with

melted rose flowers

and they don't either stop me from

roaming the streets with my vision

and be grateful for the full-on blessings

but all they did was...

hold me in limited freedom.

however,

the story changes dimension

when the hyperpigmentation

of my smile

break boundaries within these zip ties

and laugh freely

and infectiously;

to a new horizon

overcome, with my beating heart

and contagious smile

I may appear

meek for now

by the unfairness of the turbulent situation

but I am sure of the hurricane in me

that waits for the right time

to break free.