“Contemplation VI”

 

Forgive me dear soul,

for there is little

wonder to my movements now.

 

I have grown complacent in all things,

            and lucrative in none.

            My soul is drifting in wasted climb above

the world I hold so near...

            a muddled definition in the fold

of some cloud;

alone and cast out like one drop of rain

too many upon this mighty earth.

Pure...

insignificant

servitude...

mock bondage of uncertain years

            to weep

            un heard

            unheld

            unknown.

 

There is revelation in my mind;

a swift movement so resolved

            my eyes fill with the swirl of such a

            lucid light

that haze of forgotten mysteries pass from my sight.

 

My thoughts aspire freely

merging into every chasm,

gently pushing a

            sweet and temperate magic into yet a new realm.

            My potential is expanding in a delightfully new way,

            forgiving every fear I’ve every known.

 

Leave the souls which never dawn to their times;

Their roots are knotted,

shallow, and brittle.

My roots are the edges of dreams

and extensions of thoughts that reach outward

            to meaning

outward to fullness and not to passions of

clay.

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