Let us journey through a man
sanity stained with silence, shadow
speaking from behind the wall
hidden from our memories…
Sipping midnights well past dawn
regrets and sighs in hours long
reflecting empty journal pages
that his heart had longed to lay in
seeking joys, desires, rages…
Pursuing holy water’d life
beguiled by the faintest smile
broken like a jigsaw puzzle
tossed across a vacant room
collecting moonrays, dust, and gloom…
Counting innocence and kisses
drinking stilled and salted pools
soaring with defective lenses
upon wax wings toward distant sunsets
tinted shades of bluing hues…
One who wishes he were blind
so through the window he'd not find
himself the inside looking out
at all the smiling, successful faces…
Never finding his niche in life,
not from any lack of trying-
having lived a life of many lives-
from open sea to deepest glen
from treasures gained to treasure's end
from spotlights to the deep recesses
that the growing madness brings…
In him I sing…
or is it fearing, crying, wailing
in twisting torments new inhaling
clawing, screaming, the door remaining
ever closed, ever closed…
At long last, so simple, really,
he found he was his best, most freely
embracing life fulfilled, complete, when
engaged in supervised activity…
Now he wears this well-worn ring-
for bliss in freedom there is no guarantee...
hear the musical companion piece for a window into his soul: DGX-6 Piano Duo Percussion and Bells
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