Prism

I always 

rolled my eyes

at the people

who told me

that everything I 

never knew 

I wanted

lay on the 

other side of

the prison of comfort. 

And just as

I was about

to throw away

the key, 

I saw you lurking

just beyond

the prism created

by the scars

of my past. 

                                                             ~N.V.