The Dark Night of My Soul
I have undone all that was did,
Unhidden truths sheathed
In a thick scum of unchallenged facts;
Traditions wreathed with fairy tales,
Stories, visions; bland adults
Dressed as fantastical beings
On some scrambled saving mission.
Which is crueler?
Who the hell can know?
After all, there is no reason
For it to be or not be so.
Though, I have drilled down
To the nothing land;
Weeded out excuses drugged
With lies, deception justified and
Manipulated from this moment
Right back to the moment
Of my probed conception.
I have stared directly down the barrel
Of a perilous, unending abyss
In curious and stubborn fear
To see what, if anything, of this was true.
I have screamed my pointlessness
Into the darkest, blackest holes;
Run ragged rings from pole to pole
Around murky, muddy milky ways
And all for you.
To find some certain realistic magic
Of a land I never knew -
One no longer marked, recited, twisted;
Screened by second hand.
And now I find myself suspended
In a space between it all;
Held in weightlessness,
Falling nowhere,
Freedom floating in free fall
From all untrue, misguided and unclean
Waiting but not waiting
Here and there for you
Seen and not unseen.
Graham Sherwood
Wed 29th Oct 2014 16:28
To my mind this is much better Natalie.