Motifs

Say what you want
but I need to breathe.

To explain away my frustration
or lack there of.

Motifs echo in my works-
hopelessness, dreams, fears, worries, sadness
and there's more.

I shall not traverse on those right now

Although,

I have a black cat;

in another time I would have been staked
as a witch for it.

Intolerance for those who wish
to be more than the status quo.

That intolerance still lurks in the shadows
and I feel it drain me bit by bit.