Know thyself

Know thyself

20 February 2016

Courtesy wakingtimes.com

 

The dark smarts

Hooded shadows roam

Within night

Their feet slight

Their footsteps lost in silence

Of the blackened arts

 

The stories

Flowers in bouquet

Some radiant

Some wilted

Series of experiences

All set in the growth

 

Memories

Cast in blue windows

To the soul

There is trail

The heart wizens as I fail

To harken to both

 

Listening

To clicks of the safe

Haven found

Give the keys

Crawl indoors upon your knees

Eat me and grow tall

 

Watch me fall

With the winter’s sleigh

Downhill ride

Upon snow

Of white feathers plucked out slow

Breaking my bad bone

 

Clutch it hard

Wish upon my chest

Of treasures

I store none

I gave once my very best

Now I am pauper

 

In life’s game

There are knights and pawns

Some visit

Royal lawns

Others like window shopper

Roam empty handed

 

There is shame

In stolen limelight

Fake varnish

Withered ends

If you lie you make amends

To name you tarnish

 

Know thyself

Meeting at midnight

Clarity

Soul’s delight

In the twining horizons

Watch grow your own light

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy Garden of black roses on deviantart.com

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