Poetry
Illumination
The highest Light exists within
Yet warped through shadowed outlooks
Most not even our own.
The polished perspective of the plaintive ego
Designed to Distort - - Destroy
Crack the windows through which we see
Only fractured features we perceive
Illuminating Light
Shines Bright
Through the lens of the journey taken
From forlorn fathoms of darkness deep
To heights witnessed in sacred Sight.
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Self Sabotage
I build up problems in my head
To keep myself from thinking ahead
To stall the game
Not seek the fame
I shy away
From what I’m meant to say.
Perspective
The inner glass shifts
And the world is ever changed
The mind’s eye awakened
To truth long since known
Beyond the veil
All is shown.
Shroud of Shadows
Walking down a road I left long ago
All alone in the dark I cannot show
Anyone just what it means
How it feels
Where I’ve been
I thought myself stronger than this
But darkness in itself is bliss
A shroud to hide me from the world
But locked away it is so cold
My Shadow craves this hollowness inside
A secret shame I must hide
From all those who would come to care
The burden of this cross I bear
For if I were to be relieved
I know not who I’d be
Morphine Dreams
In realms of magic, friends and enemies
Where nothing is what it seems
You will find your hidden power
At that untimely hour.
Rise or fall the choice is yours
But listen to the Whispering Moors
That guide you to your journey’s end
To begin again or ascend…
Shivers
Like a shiver through the heart the universe resonates
A jump through realities to destined fate
The power within we cannot see
Beyond the Shadow lies the Light that sets us free
Dark Wings
Trapped between feeling too much
And feeling nothing at all
On the brink, about to fall - -
A void of darkness in the mind
Seeking something I cannot find
Something to fill the emptiness inside
Something to make me feel alive...
And yet, in my darkest hour
I find I’ve always had the power
To save my self all along
And fly upon the wings of my own song.
Spiral of Sadness
Drowning in a sadness I cannot define
One without reason or rhyme
One I at times emerge from
Only to once again come undone.
Ascension
Protective walls soon suffocate
Love and comfort turn to hate
The light of life has dimmed
Behind your eyes red rimmed
When the suffering is too much to bear
Only you can climb that golden stair
To where you do not know
That first step away from sorrow.
Metamorphosis
We shut off all connection
From a world we fear to know
The pain inflicted caused retreat
Into the comfort darkness deep
But then the reigning paradigm
Shifts towards the Light
A spark, a glimpse, into the divine bright
Yet still the vestiges of Darkness
Cling on and hold us back
The strength to break free waxes and wanes
But it will rise again.
And soon the chains that held us
Transform to wings in flight
A metamorphosis of Being
On this odyssey of life.
Shedding Shadows
I shed my shroud of shadows
I let go of its embrace
Its softness clings with promised comfort
I hesitate – retrace
Volleying between the two extremes
I know not where to move
Forgotten how to choose.
Consumed – lost
Drowning in a torrent of emotion
I stop
I listen
I surrender.
In patient presence Light rekindles
Fans into a flame of radiance long since known
And now a starlit cloak of ease settles upon my shoulders
As the shadowed shroud dissolves into the loving Earth’s embrace.
Cycle
Rain falling to the ground
Once it falls it is then bound
To the Earth where it once came
Through the path of nature’s game
Pendulum
The Self’s inner pendulum
Shifts with the trials of life
Ever seeking the peaceful balance
Of the middle ground
Hold fast when that which test you
Threatens to blow your ship off course
The winds that push to each extreme
Are ever present and plentiful
The power to remain centered is eternal