guided, cajoled, no other choice
a unique road, undertaken

personal relationship with Universal themes
in relation always with the whole

a fragile life in a fragile world
making the most of a way home.

swift the days
long the nights

a Winters wealth
star struck skies

a hibernation
cabin fever

a calm acceptance
a candle flame

meditation
enclosed in black.

journeying through sleep time
the body restful
the mind travelling on

a path through strangeness
uncomfortably familiar faces

those left behind in the body
indelible scarring across the memory.

raw is skin deep and deeper still the remedy
-minds can be bitter
grey matter scars scourge the present moment
-a thief of happiness and freedom
this journey short lived flesh relationship
-our souls grieve each others pain
we surely must try, fragile our shared reality,
to be Brother and Sister in Eden
the garden before we ate the fruit
and the Serpent stole our innocence.

a midnight stop around the Sun
-Burgers and Milkshakes

we bow down to distraction
some kind of appetite

nothing lasts for very long
except the hunger to live.

diluted inspiration
the capture of the ineffable

somewhere in between
the betwixt

a poem of sorts
is born.