Carved lines
Frozen echoes of time
Disavow
Past and present
Faith and wonder
Here and now.

Endless rhymes
Frozen echoes of shine
Enthrall
Pure and repulsive
Kind and callous
None or all.

Hollow lives
Frozen echoes of the sublime
Wreathe
Darkness and light
Beauty and foulness
Above and beneath
Where discordant nature guides.

A hand proffered in numbers and lines
Awaiting in constructed utopias to mine
To dance along the pathways of another’s mind
As music plays the distant echo of fines

All classes inside the ballroom mill
Like moths to bright fire
Sharing in common desires
Trust in power to their fill

In decisions to face
Inconsequential imperfections to embrace
Stepping stones either lead
Up to victory or down defeat

Building faith in partners and creed
To stumble along paths littered with greed
An adventure on loan, safely at home
To fulfill a yearning for something unknown

Innocuous crime
Spare some time
To decode the faults of mind
Set in parchment and ink
Fallen to dust in the wind
Behind lost eyes in a wink

Caught in tradition’s mire
To seek the burns of novelty’s fires
As being turns to dust
Glorious shine is effaced in the rust
Of changes gone by
Still no right answer nigh

Dogmas eclipse
Chains rattle and drift
All directions under the sun
A compass superior to none

Are perceptions unique or uniform
To culture borne?
Or are answers forever amiss
A world built in chaotic bliss