this night
without end
I shun these walls
as the melancholy of the day
turns her troublesome eyes
to the swift approaching fall
alone now
but not
and quite flexibly able in either view
I wear this discontented shawl
Woman
at the threshold
of welcome complication
looking never back
at everything of old
mistakes quietly put away
to be re examined later
all heartaches shelved
and perversely forgiven
as the need is realized
for each his prior existence
an incomparable elation
hold such preoccupation
in an almost suspended
spiritual stasis
true revelation
is the shear spirit
of the very word itself
alive within the throat
that storms and prowls within
every man's fleshed depths
its longed for discovery
when finally excavated from
the searching self
is the finest thesis
of each our so very profound lives
in the reflected bulk
of their entirety
so rise in yourself to be brave
construct and carry with you
your own self sharpened ax of
spiritual curiosity
and hack out your own chosen path
to a wiser self understanding
for it is an education
that the soul will never forget..........
(written Sept.29,2001 6am)