It is nineteen hundred hours,
The dark and the silence have begun,
The day in all its glorious madness
Has bled its colors and run.
But its pictures remain in my memory’s tracks
And I long for their pleasant release
So I ply them with personal preferences
As I hope their impression will cease.
What?
To be replaced with more movement
Away from the center
That will continue to fracture and confuse?
No, rather a run to an eternal presence
That can rectify, sanctify and enthuse.
Yes, the world outside will always be there,
It is the constant
Steady in time and in space
But it is the journey far away
In the silence of living
That nothing and no one can erase.
My soul is the eternal presence
That longs for the eternal sense
And it eschews my choices to pacify it
In the pleasures of the present tense.
2012.10.02.0600 ©