Doors

It is in so many ways like a flower that is afraid of the sun. What do the innards look like? Are the colors ugly? The risk is too great! I must hide myself, lest the world see the garish truth and the clashing petals. It is in this way that I become a frigid thing, locked away inside many rooms. I pace the floors and I know these tiles so well that my mind begins to believe that I have imagined the ones before them. I can still recall the scent of her perfume. I close that door.
Running, I find that I am lost among many memories, and that another has been stripped from me; no matter how many frames I beat upon, it is gone, gone, gone.

Tree

A single tree's pale fingers
stretch towards the light
I am with them
Leaves pierce and flourish
I grow for a time
But when buds begin to pinprick
my arms turn inward
The flowers spring forth and bear fruit
I shrivel and my eyes flash
My mouth begins to speak
and blackness pours out
My inner tree lies dormant
until the cycle begins again

Purification

I've always believed that with knowledge came pain. In a sense, pain is knowledge. With me, it has always brought a clarity of thought that I've never had in situations where I didn't feel pushed to the very edge of sanity, forced to make a choice between a feverish search for truth, and a loss of everything I hold dear.When backed into a corner, you must evaluate all the options: turn back, forget; stay stagnant, refusing to make a decision; or look forward, seeking truth and desiring growth.
People have always questioned a person's necessity for growth. But truly, what are we without knowledge, without understanding? Does mere "being" dare you to dream -- to achieve? Can bare existence impregnate you with the curiosity required in order to discover all the things we need to know? Science, love, happiness: to achieve any, you must grow, you must learn to adapt, to understand, to sympathize with those around you so that we don't destroy one another.
Let us not forget that Adam and Eve may have been perfect, yes, but they also knew nothing and did not progress. It was a choice that changed the world, as well as them. They brought sin into the world, but sin and pain and death are necessary evils in order to experience redemption.