Heartfelt Enlightenment

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Love

I came to you

with heart in hand

fresh from its gig

on my sleeve.



Promises made and

forsaken as the demons

come and a choice must

be made...fight or flight?

I choose to run.



In my flight, I make

false bonds of normalcy

only to bring others to

ruin. And in doing so

bring my own soul,

cheap, unto heaven as

I am to mine own

self...untrue.



Upon wounded knees

my nocturnal tears

seek heaven's grace

through silent cries

to HE that IS, in

plea for peace and

pennance.



How can I find

redemption's altar

and what price must

be exacted for its

reward?



I am just a man

whose senses have

been turned outward

too long and inward

too little.



A man whose strength

for others is as great

and solid as the base

of the pyramids. Yet,

who takes none for

himself. And by doing

so, honors all but saves

not his own soul wounded

and tormented by the

demons hence.



Therein lies the rub

in this "Blind Nobility".

That in sacrificing all

for those others, I

deprive myself of that

which is the source

of all quests great

and holy...love.



I must find myself.

It is the only way

in which my misery

will end.  Then I

can reclaim that

which I have lost.



So, I turn my gaze

from without to

within.  And with

help from one who

sees me as I am

but knows me not,

I embark upon the

path to this most

heartfelt enlight-

enment to become

one with self and

spirit within the

converging and

diverging paths

we call life.



And as days past

are now renewed,

I am, again made

to feel whole.



The demons may no

longer find fruit

within my soul and

are cast out into

the void.



And with passions

anew, I seek now,

to win the heart

of she who would

love me greatest

of all.



It is upon her face

for the first time

that I see what I

have wandered far,

and wide, to bear

witness. The light

that exists only in

the gladness of her

smile and the love

that near radiates

through her soul's

lites so sourced by

the burning desire

of her heart.



It is now that all

things have become

clear and we are

afraid no longer as

the flames born of

two hearts made one

burns for...eternity.




Author's Notes/Comments: 

A newly completed work about lost love, recaptured love, and redemption.

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