The Road Taken

 You tell me

Take the straight road

I prefer a crooked one

No, not to defy you

Not at all

To explore, to discover

All that you deny and reject.

That road is steep

Winding at times

I struggle to find foothold

Often I lose my way

This journey of rediscovery

Brings exhilarating moments

To reward efforts.

Your well trodden paths

Your beaten tracks

Fail my test every time

Lead me to break molds repeatedly

Or, to have them broken

I'm grateful for that

Powers that be, or I

Uncover Truth behind truths

Realigning, Rewiring, relearning.

 

 

Limiting the Limitless

 Thus far- no farther

you've reached your limit

Certain cravings die

Untimely deaths

Others live on

Beating, pulsing

Knowing death before they die.

Distances not measured in miles

Thoughts capable of winging

Crossing untold expanse

Touching, weaving dreams

living lives within life.

A hundred revelations

Unique journeys

Re-shaping, emerging

One out of another.

The Burn Out

 "Should I go?"

"It's best you do."

A short conversation

Words too few.

Yet mirror cracks from side to side

Shards of unrealized dreams

Strewn a around, scattered on ground

Pain and regret flow down in streams

Leaving desolate eyes

But broken heart clings on

As prayers spew 

May all be well.

 

Perhaps one day Comes solace

Per chance a re-run

Not the same as before

Never the same

Just enough to hold on

Desperate attempt

To rekindle dead fires

Till ashes grow cold

Flames doused in hearts once bold.

Burnt out souls indifferent

Neither sad nor glad

Submissive to blows.

On Dying

 Were I to die today

None would be worse off

A small unwanted blob

Wiped off with no thought

Leaves canvas ready to re-paint.

Lives I touched

Might let out a sigh or two

No storms will brew

For memory is fickle as fortune

And voids can't stay.

In another day

Life will come rushing in

A pleasant wind

To leave a new imprint.

 

Daunting

Mouth zpped

Blindfolded

Limbs strapped

You urge to fly free

To touch moon and stars

'Cause that's where you are. 

Mind cluttered with

Disappointment

Heartbreak

You urge to transcend

To cross the bar

As you beckon from afar.

Wanting to share

Finding myself banished

Condemned to live

In prison unbolted

Unseen surveillance surround

Griefs profound.