I only visit now places you live 
where there are no bodyguards 
I only go now to open spaces 
where there are no doors, 
to be shown and closed. 

I circumvent round the gatekeepers 
who patrol like circling birds of prey 
watching with piercing eyes 
for signs of dissent or disarray 

The walls they protect, though ancient, 
have nothing on the sea, 
nothing on the history of the earth, 
the story of the land, 
how these shapes came to be.

Nothing on the sky where the real birds roam free 

I am almost always at home now, 
almost everywhere I go now, I can see.
Almost always everywhere
I can be me