Red Bricks

Red Bricks (18-069B)

Walled off heart

A brick for each micro-trauma

Foundation of rejection and shame

Hand withdrawn

Touch withheld

Another brick mortared

Uncontrolled rage

Unsafe memories etched

Another brick set

Trained to filter

Through fear, trauma, abuse

More bricks

World askew

Can't feel - joy or pain

Bricks secure around heart

Prisoner in cell

Personally built

Only see red bricks now

Heart shipwrecked

Until that day

Brick wall cracks

Bricks shaken

At foundation

Hope awakens

Wall pushed down

No more frown

Bricks 'n rubble all around

Liberation comes

Joy's a crown

Heart found

Bricks redeemed

New name written

Transformed to altar

Offer up sacrifice

Of praise for deliverance

Upon what had bound

Reclaimed what imprisoned

No more sorrow or shame

Bricks have a new name

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (18-069B)