Linger...

They all moved on
I stayed behind
In dusty bylanes of my mind
Holding fast
To fading memories
Of us
And all our yesterdays...

They slipped away
Against my will
Disappearing fast
Past yonder hill
And still I lingered
In the afterglow
Of us
And all our yesterdays...

There lies
Beyond that
Velvet sky
Past the
Farthest reaches
Of my eye
A place that
Hides me
Deep within
Its solitary
Silence.

And in that
Mysterious,Secret
Place
I find you
On my
Darkest days
Standing, Waiting
Faithful, True
Oh My Shadow
Would I even be
If it weren't
For you.

That essential question

Swing crazy
Between extremes
Torrid high
Despondent low
And in between
There lay
A 'Why?'
The Answer to which
We couldn't
Know
Along the edges
Of its
Steep ascent
We rose unfettered,
Our shackled wills
Were innocence...
Wrapped in a hurricane,
Driving us Forth
Holding us still.
And we swung
Between
Crazy extremes
Torrid high
Despondent low
Hopelessly distant
Scaldingly close
Have we been neither
...or have we been both.

...

Who are you
That haunts my dreams
And hides within
My shadows...
That wanders in
My yesterdays,
Keeps me
From my tomorrows...

My Insomniac

Trudging through the light of day
Half awake and unaware
Waiting for the night to come
And cloak him in its soothing folds
Of solitary darkness...
He'll walk past, but you will not see
The man that he once used to be
You'll see him come, then watch him go
My maddened lost insomniac.

What troubles him he will not say
Events from an ancient age
Things he says you must remember
'They happened only yesterday'
In his ancient language- long forgotten
He'll tell you truths you'll never know
You'll see him come, then watch him go,
My maddened lost insomniac...