I have a tough exterior

like most nuts

I’m hard to crack

Though my desires in this life

are to love and give back

I’ve psyched myself out through

incomprehensible dreams

I’ve isolated myself

in the corner of extremes

Though this is how my world alights

through the darkness of shadows

cast in the images of light

As I have these desires

to give and receive

My soul floats higher than

any incomprehensible dream