In response to a post:

..but you can always give yourself what the world can never--
this alone will grant you the courage and wisdom to move forward as you will have become your own torch-bearer

The no man's land
is not nowhere
but hidden
within oneself

the labyrinth
left alone
terra incognita
where no seed is sown

that wasteland
the owner can't claim
the dark cave that can't
be lit by the brightest  flame

time rushes on mindlessly
and will not arrested or tamed
the self shrinks and  dissolves
its life morphs into a sorrowful game

Time I'll allow
to live on its own
its twist and turn
but I'll find my way
on my terms -alone

in my choice
and freedom

I might fail
or fall
but will learn
and I know
too well
life is hard
to comprehend

yet I'll never yield
nor to despair bend
squarely at its face
(august and stern)
I'll fearlessly confront
up to the very end!

What others regard
as absurd
I don't reject-
it has some
hidden content
that I can extract
which others
do not detect -
haven't we heard
of the folly of the wise
who sometimes commit
stupid mistakes?

And thus
I'm open-minded
in slicing
the inside
of what others
hold as absurd
and lift the veil
hopefully
some meaning
to unearth.

They wear a mask
because their own selves
they fail to trust

Misled
by another?
No, more
by oneself

The king, the prince
the billionaire, the aristocrat
like the pauper and the lowly
each will end in the grave