THE SEARCH


On its energy you rise breathless,
scaling the elliptical lighthouse stairs
to embrace illumination

At your limits of sand and sea,
it draws you to touch the swirl
of embedded ammonite,
that connects you with your past

Curled heavy on your bed,
you desire to stroke its velvet cat-fur
for comfort during the solitude
of sleep…


Teasing with mental fingers
tight-packed walnut folds of brain,
tracing its core quiescence;

peeling back heart’s budded petals
to enquire of its impulse;

examining your fingertip’s whorl
in search of identity’s secret:

This the quest of spooled reflection,
cloaked mirror’s ravelled “other”
that reveals yourself to you

The unconscious journey outside in,
concentric paths diminishing

in pursuit of the twin.