6. " Unbridled Darkness "

Unbridled Darkness

As I search for the light

 in this eerily familiar room

Darkness won’t let me

find the switch I assume

I feel for the walls

that confine this hopeless space

So close yet so far away

that known boundaries are misplaced

Where lays that lost tunnel

that funnels away the despair?

I know I have been there on hands and knees

naked, broken, bleeding and bare

Obscurity consumes me

I sense my aching soul

Am I back here again

in the isolation of forlorn holes?

Is this a dimness

no faint light may penetrate?

Are these dark shadows’

self-tormenting delusions only a chimera state?

Can I patiently wait

for the illusive light in this room?

Isolation hears no mourning

as if this were my ultimate tomb?

Blessed be the final anguish

when merciful surrender evolves  into solitude

After all I was nearly half of whole,

when I was rescued from earthly turpitude

Memories of drowning,

gasping for a vivid dream

As the angel’s of mercy hovered over

the ultimate final scene

Don’t deny what’s inside

the soul as it is never alone

In this place where midnight floods

all that radiance condones

Surely optimism has merely vanished

as broken hearts leak

the last drops of love rain down  in silence

while the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

The soul of a man still clenches

for the tunnels to daylight

If only the mind could follow

its intuition’s path into black and white

As I search for the light

in this proverbial empty space

Dreaded darkness won’t allow

discovery of illumination’s key that’s misplaced

These walls seem so claustrophobic

like fear has consumed

But darkness still envelops

the warrior’s tomb

Yearning for a passage

that was lost along route

Scratching and crawling,

loneliness timidly reaches out to few ...

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