A shadow fell across my heart today, inexplicable

Darkness with no real source, its presence a physical

Thing that filled my mouth with a taste like salt as

A sorrow overtook me, an unaccounted for intruder

That seemed to linger just beyond the fringes of

Understanding, like a strange voice in another room.

What malady is this, to come upon me so? This

Intangible dweller from origins unknown that

Takes up residence here, to caress my thoughts

With bitter fascination, probing inward, a miner

Of bad intentions seeking out what I thought left

Behind, in the hidden places of my soul.

This stranger is not welcome here, yet still he

Comes, harbinger of tired eyes looking back

At me from a dusty mirror, hiding behind their

Hazel discontent, jangling random keys on a

Ring of memories in one ethereal hand, each

Key labeled, for doors best left closed.

So I turn away from that doppelganger, and sit

Before the only keys that matter, changing thoughts

Into words as I press each one in turn, forming my

Defenses and driving back the pain the only way

I know how, spelling to dispel, one line to the next

In a frenzy of self-release, a mystic kind of liberation.

Until the stranger takes his leave…

END

“Inexplicable”