Foreshadowing
by Odin Roark



Dodging The Eye by day
Awareness awaits temporary facades to retire
Day's entertainment but a test of Patience

Inevitably

As dusk draws near
horizons portend awakening
Reality's shadow lengthens
connecting East to West
comfort to precipice

Shortly

Shadowless light
bathes the Mind's workshop
Night's meditation begins
Waking Hour's masquerade
dons nakedness

Closing eyes

Release images once shaded
converging with cells of clarity
surging through heartened valves
flooding hesitant passions with courage
shuffling jigsaw pictures
into connected impressions


The Soul's lexicon of discovery takes shape
mini percussions become massive cymbals
Light's arrival awakening imagination
bursting forth renderings of yesterday's confusion
into today's DNA of inner peace
a resonance of quiet

The poems we all carry
need but the nocturnal light
to usher closed the eyelids of sanctuary
flowering child-innocent dreams
where pain finds solace
and pleasure gives thanks
nurturing silent words
into passages of discovery

Then

Smile's sudden awakening
announces Tomorrow's arrival
foreshadowing visions
for yet another night of Epiphany's light