Disconnection

I am a phantom

Gliding through the hallways of my former life

No longer acknowledgeable to the beings around me

I listen for my heartbeat of tranquility but find only stillness

My lungs fill only with longing for things I cannot change

My mind dreams only of a new reality

Where my soul sits right beside me

Instead of bound many miles away

Where my pain can be forgotten

And not carried by a human reminder of my bygone torment

Where I am not confined to a cell of my mistakes

Where I am a river

Flowing freely, without a dam in sight