Paths traveled
mysteries yet raveled
insight not withstanding
a gale of deprivation
under bending
scoured clean
flesh from bone
spirit from throne
bent to breaking
yet still
un-shorn
Blighted eyes
blindly gazing
sightlessly seeing
in death
the route home
RAIL RAIL
fist clenched in denial
trial
GUILTY GUILTY
chant the shades
limbo's voice
to condemn
TO CONDEMN
By self demeaned
anger no longer
sustains
cleaned
purged
submerged
Drowning I breath
suffocated
Smothered
by
the vapors of hope
DISPERSED
fillimants
tendrals
of what was
disolved
ABSOLVED
on searing wind
UN NAMED
standing a tower
Erected on sand
falling to stand
jumble of stone
MAJESTY in chaos
magnificent created
by the undoing
dissolution
GRAND as ruin
POSSes nobility
stories told
in decay
more messaged in
destruction
than ever conveyed
in creation
BROKEN
i still stand
i still stand
YET
do i remain
a shade
ghostly apparition
opake silhouette
what was
unchanged
though not the same
ambled rambling
TO EARS
DISJOINTED
jumbled refrain
pattern in confusion
by hunger
sustained
LOSS
my daily bread
strength in weakness
victory
through submission
isolation
my companion
no ears fall under
this cry
dispersed
by distance
as soul fills
yet spirit
starves
ALONE
I deny
DENY
that I cry
emepheral tears
from dry eyes
contradictions
convictions
stubborn surrender
as billows
underfoot
choking
cloaking from sight
a plight
prints of passage
steps not mine
this path is not
unique to me
though trail
un-peopled
road named despair
is always
traversed
alone
mocked by laughter
of the contented
a bitter gruel
un-sustaining
yet filling
burdened
by lost images
shards of broken
LOVE
HOPE
a tasteless nutrient
flay's the insides
bleeding unseen
yet somehow
standing
a shadow
cast by nothing
unexplained apparition
as I cast shadows
so I must maybe
still
exist
