O tangled mess of hopes and fears abound Inside these cardboard walls we all are trapped And here, with blinded sight and deaf from sound Within pathetic pantomimes en-wrapped We wile away the tepid, sordid hours Oases of ideal we try to find But here, anon, we’re sucked of sacred powers And left to drift,Continue reading “Three”
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Two
The cabin’s walls were strong, just like the man Who with the boy, canoe and gear in tow, Would make a weekend home upon the land And sleep at night ‘neath star and moon and crow Outside the wind sang high amid the cold While inside walls the fire burned on bright And when theContinue reading “Two”
One
The cross I bear across my brow for thee Makes up the cloth which sees me through the storm And in the faintest moments of my glee Adds paint and pain-ed pallor to my form The world around makes light of who we are It mocks the very essence of the soul In pale paradeContinue reading “One”
