An electrify foreboding
Fills the air
Feelings not misplaced
Considering
The desolate path
Which now
Threatening to inhabit
My entire consciousness
Labyrinthine cobblestones
Weave their way
Into the shadows
The serpentine coils
Leave the destination concealed
Myst dripping with fear
Casts
Silhouettes of doubt
Upon an assured arrival
Illusory guides
Offering sanctity & oasis
Are revealed
To confound, distract and ensnare
In webs spun of self-interest & deception
One traverses
Valleys of pain
While facing consumption
In rivers of tears
Stark isolation
Must be
Stared down
Until the truth
is wrung
From its tendrils
You may meet those
That will
Walk a segment with you
No one can
Walk it for you
Nor do they know
Where you are going!
How then
To build trust
With little known materials?
Faith
In an invisible benefactor?
Fashion fortitude
From the
Very clay of your origins?
Forward
Lies an infinite unknown
Backward
The intimacy
Of a familiar hell
Welcome to the heart
Hallmark
Dares not to share
With you!
R. O'Neill (January 20, 2018)
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