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Audacity of Change

I'm sure the obscurities of the lenses clouding my vision

Are nothing more than a hologram of the world I never knew

But always thought existed in the window panes of my brain

 

The outside world my thoughts are too afraid to venture

For the warmth in the home of my realistic perception

Is the safe haven of who I am and what I know

And going outside my homestead into the dark forest of the things

That are undiscovered to my left but known all too well by my right  

Are what excels my lenses to constantly change when the room is the same tint of light

 

Transitions from one thing to the next don't necessarily need to have a change one can see

I feel the forest calling me as if I'm some bewitched prophecy

But the foreboding dank blackness that thickens my view

Has always stopped me from entering into the unknown of my own self

 

These hazy retractions of light may cast dark shadows

However right now my mind is a whirlwind of calamities that can only be tranquilized

By venturing into the unknown darkness inside of me

 

This time these obscured lenses draped over my glass orbs

Create a tint similar to what is within the forest

My transitions are nonexistent but all the more in constant motion behind closed curtains

 

So my first steps out of my safe haven are slow

The door creaks like an old mans rusted weathered body  

And I feel the pang of hysteria hit me as the outside air tests out my foreign skin

 

When I enter the blackened forest I begin running into what I have never known to my left but know so well in my right

The nightmare-conjuring mysteries of this realm are ready to be battled.

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Sep 28, 2013
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