1. I wear my dream when I dress in it
So you see me with stilled pulse

2. As though my palms were bound
From the motions of extending and grasping

3. Fearing for a softness worn by time
So part of it weeps over part

4. I walk politely while it screams
Complaining and apologizing for running

5. Oh I am a hanging rope for it
I furnish it with obligation and loan

6. How long will you be afflicted
By chains, neither living nor deciding

7. I have become from your raising me like one
Who hopes for the foam of water in churning