It all seems so fitting
looking out at the shining light
that tries so hard to spread so far
but only barely penetrates the doorway
through my momentary attention
So fleeting is the hope and optimism
so crushing is the weight and the dark
so enveloping, so overwhelming
and yet the world outside looks so bright
only footsteps out through the threshold
just out of reach of all but my eyes
glittering like fool’s gold
bathed in artificial rays
taunting me effortlessly
as I struggle to find it
despite it being there
before my face so clearly
I look but cannot touch
no matter how I try
Surrounded by the stench of failure
the darkness holds me in
Month: October 2024
Once and Who Knows If Again
Funny how the mind works
as time slips by beholden
to memories brought to mind
at the wit and will of some
grand design we’ll never understand
A stray electron fires
and suddenly you’re surrounded
by the ocean waves crashing around you
tearing at the sand
and the pitter patter of raindrops falling
as you hang back from those
that fate bid accompany you
when she was the only reason
you are where you were
A face, a name, a memory
that hasn’t crossed your mind
in what might as well be forever
flashing bright into your vision
You smile in that old nostalgic way
as a moment that meant so much once
(and yet so little overall)
fills you with a melancholic reflection
of what was and is and might have been
all at the whim of certain chance
a fleeting glimpse of another world
a lost time and place
once and who knows if again