Once more incumbent visions fade

As joyous light dims, cold and mean

Advancement, just a passing grade,

Oblivious to what might have been.

Such slender hope detached and slain

Then cast aside as worthless waste,

Its humbled siblings note its pain

And scramble to move on in haste.

In fervent wish, lift up mine eyes,

A heartfelt prayer to rescue me

As frantically I search the skies

For signs of plighted destiny.

But all I see are shades of gloom

As other people’s clouds drift by.

Dejectedly, I spit and fume

Intent on stifling inner cry

The mind can rise and travel vast

The soul can scheme in colours bold

Yet where reality be cast

Such hopes and dreams will fast run cold

As walls enclose and thickened air

Contain me in imprisonment

It’s known that there’s a world out there

That’s brash and stark and insolent

It’s hard to know where to begin

Unravelling this snarled dissent

A void within a void, within

Chaotic mind’s encumberment

And though sun rise and dusk will fall

(Life’s daily dance for all to see)

It’s clear, beneath wind’s husky call,

This world was never meant for me.