The image in my tainted view
Was the clearest in ages
Just as I thought to close the book
Before inciting myself to rip out all the pages

To inspirational heights I climbed
Without a shred of doubt
Like the last 10 pieces of a jigsaw puzzle
The connections were obvious... as my
Jaded and near faded pathway
Came back to life

Into being
Suddenly a view
Appearing
That I knew right then
Just how near I had been
To suddenly veering into tangent unknown

Willing to fight the undergrowth
The tangled web of neglected
Overgrowth
Made up of what... I guess
Would be both
My spirit and my dreams

Neglected to the chaotic
Sprawl of hopelessness
This new view
Allows me to confess
It was never a trail
I allowed myself to aspire to... fully

As I'm foolishly.. I am now aware
This perfection that manifested
In my open and fully invested...
....consciousness

Let me in - to suddenly
Reach the end
Just as I feared
The clearing disappeared
So as I now hack my way
Through my tangled and mangled future
Again I am
As I've always been

Just as lost and lonely
As I ever was - and will be
For it seems
This is the image
The tainted view
The only one ... I ever knew!