A Little Trip Off The Straight Road

Do you feel the darkness?
Asphyxiating
Cloying
Twitching
For lights in dark places
For a greenleaf in the dark forest
For starshine on a dark night

A redemption sought.

Douse the heart’s fire
Pawning soul lights
Flaming the soul’s dark desire
Offering mock solace
To quivering temptation.

Thorns and needles
Kindling hurt needless
A fragile heart
In whose keeping;
When keepers’ feel burdened?

Can and cannot
Wishful thinking
Thoughts interrupted
Simmering doubts
Sparks of fear
Aimless wandering
Questless seeking

But where is the mage?

The sea beckons
A thirst identified
Dreams within reach
With reality ransomed?
The butterfly effect
Nullified? And truly
Guiltless and guileless?

Seconds pass on
Adrift on sealess shores
Entwined eternity
A chimeral relic.