Lost Soul

Somewhere in bewildering mazes,

Somewhere on unending ways,

Somewhere 'twix waking and sleeping

Lives a lost soul.

Twisting and turning,

Uphill and downhill,

On a plateau, alone,

Lives a lost soul.

In twinkling lights,

In beckoning hearths,

In shrouding warmth,

Lives a lost soul.

Beyond shimmering

Vision or delusion

Blindfolded, trussed

Walking on, a lost soul.

Dead Leaves

Dead leaves

Lying on the ground

Drying and rotting,

No nurture, nor care,

In utter despair

Sans strength to move:

A gentle breeze

A gust of life

Instant awakening

Breath blown back from nowhere

A stirring, a fluttering,

Lo! death departs!

A forest fire

Rapid and wild

Blazing its fiery trail,

Melting and burning

Casting out dross,

A golden heart remains.

Goodbye to Love

No, not a sunset:

Eclipse shadows light.

Untimely darkness descends;

Awake or asleep? Demented soul

Poised on edifice; a moment, a blast,

Or was it a crash? Thunderous quaking

Yet annihilation aborted.

Groping blindly through Hell

A survivor, more dead than those killed,

Living in nightmarish dusk.

Andromeda, the accursed, chained to life

On barren mountaintop.

The Seeking

Long have you run, through sun and hail

To catch elusive stars;

In vain have you combed ocean beds

To find your golden bar;

Alas! your soul you lost in the race,

Pawned your heart for a dream,

Your world now darkens, sunset is nigh

It's time to sail upstream.

Seek no more in yon world without

your treasure you'll find in you,

Come home Dear One, come home once more,

In joy your life renew.