Ethereal Night sky sways Ethereal dreams Surreal beings Seeing who we are Limitless within our own boundaries Swimming while drowning Astounding creatures Distorted by the high lives of movie stars Fast cars, last call, e-mail and shopping malls Those off-white walls of repressed anger Our Lord and Savior A one-time gangbanger? With more clothes than there are hangers And a pair of getaway shoes Seduced by enough drugs to pastel yellow the blues Sound systems, car alarms Chrome rims and 9-millimeter lucky charms Napalm-bombed mentalities Saturated realities Friends and enemies high-five at my life sentencing But almost every house has barbed-wire fencing False pretenses behind best wishes Shoplifted talents when death comes to visit Canned labeled and neatly put away Categorized organized and discreetly told to stay Behind the glass In the back of the classL Still I open my heart to exhale the past In the midst of this metropolis ... I am free at last! -Chris Corona