confounding stasis,

desperate signs
of fear

preventing me
from
ever moving forward

disparate shattered sky -

a feeling - remorse
deeply running down my spine

brain swells
with fevered septic narcosis

negating any logic
i could apply
to why...

my words no longer seem complete
a guttural moan;
incoherence

drowned in causation
by crashing waves;
a noisy ocean,
announcing
ever to the victor go the spoils
from heated battles

yet

all uncaptured moments
lost to temporal shift

beget

a rift
upon the fabric
of frail dimensionality

begging
for simple tears of empathy
to grieve with thee
and quell
unstoppable rising tides;

but no confining
branches there to stick
and bind

only salty brine
that climbs;
a salient solitary breeze

lifted high

to vacant all-consuming eyes,
aware of only channels
in the grooves of
places lived,
and spaces crawled
into...

bespeaking futures
long since past the hope
of ever being realized

in repeated failed discovery,
floating leaves of dark design
drifting back into a
final fatal disdain

swirling ever faster
down an endless
hollow
drain

Copyright (c) 2005 Jeff Mason