Day Eight: Describe a place. I am in a place where material subjects don’t hold my attention very well. So this is an attempt at describing an emotional space.
I have penned no words for you since forever
Out of time though, my heart has done nothing but call your name
Over and over I find myself following paths that lead to you
Or rather they lead to places where I realize your absence
The separateness is startling and unreal
Grief too deep for words or tears, for they only well up in me
Perhaps I can not weep because I can not accept or come to terms with it
Or perhaps I just refuse to
But how can I come to terms with what is impossible
Just one tear would contain the sadness of the whole world
Something was missing, awry, incomplete, Lost
Something undefined haunted, just outside of comprehension
An Un-Thought Known, a Soul’s itch that can not be scratched
Searching for an answer to a question not asked
Seeking a treasure rumored to exist somehow, somewhere
Beautiful echoes, fine like a razor, opening closed spaces
Fragrance on the breeze enchants, calls, inspires
The taste of blue, gold, and brown, known but not realized
(I can hear the sunlight, the birth of stars, all known but not realized. Alt.)
Soul extended, seeking to touch the moon, always out of reach, lunacy
Reflections glimpsed on the periphery of matter yet never beheld
Source of longing hidden, unfathomable like echoes, fragrances, the flavor of blue
Senses, flesh, building empty treasure houses
Pilgrimage to no-where, there and back, there and back
Hope, disappointment, grief, hope, disappointment, grief
Tired, sinking low under the weight, all the houses have crumbled
Senses, Spirit, Soul, unfettered for a season
Ego humbled by folly
Yet even as the dust settled around and over the debris
There was laughter, a sweet simple melody, rich as the Earth
Quickened now, thirst creates a new and unseen path
As “I” crumbled my Self was found
The treasure is always in the heart of the Temple
The fool has died, but the Jester remains
I was lost but now am found
Was blind but now I see