nd treacherous fissions

Grace

Oh, how subtle the seep of consciousness does find its escape

from the bloodletting of inflicted lacerations

 upon the overworked heart and mind’s

struggle to correct the wrong steps.

Arms flail at life’s reservoir of weathered experience

scattering tearful regret into

overwhelming tides of shore’s containment,

where purging the long-contained control of acquired

tickle-down awareness becomes stormy passion overflowing.

Eventually…

Flooding fissures of time’s patience become

deep-within eruptions of guilt’s wrongdoings.

Thoughtless urgency to escape the inevitable wounding

that dishonesty’s little white lies

can deepen into wider and treacherous fissions

that rapidly erode integrity’s urgency

to remain in its containment

of long-held principles.

Duplicitous sleight of hand

fractures templates of protection

rendering a bombardment of survival pressures

 overly saturating the temperance rising to its breaking point.

Undulating depths of despair churn

into a tsunami of passionate cries

wanting but to find relief

from the roiling need for grace

wherein peace cradles the wounded soul.

that rapidly erode integrity’s urgency

to remain in its containment

of long-held principles.

Duplicitous sleight of hand

fractures templates of protection

rendering a bombardment of survival pressures

 overly saturating the temperance rising to its breaking point.

Undulating depths of despair churn

into a tsunami of passionate cries

wanting but to find relief

from the roiling need for grace

wherein peace cradles the wounded soul.