I hide under the bed covers.
Darkness all around me.
Outside my room come the shouts of my parents,
Each yell frightening and saddening.

Oh I wish,
To just escape.
To leave all this anger and hate that swarms me.
To see beyond my own little world.

To feel the soft clouds brush my cheek
To see everyone the size of a pin head.
To be lifted by the air
To feel free.

To see airplanes next to me;
To see what birds see.
All in a careless way
In a way that I have never known.

I would be soaring all around the world.
Touching the tip of the Eiffel Tower,
Landing on the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
Seeing the Great Wall of China from afar.

I would soar the skies,
Day after day,
Night after night
Hoping to never go back home.

But then
Something pulls me down.
I am no longer soaring, but falling.
Landing back onto my bed.

I am shaken.
No matter how hard I try
I cannot escape the yells of my parents
So I hide under the bed covers once again.