Sojourn (1993)

 Sojourn

Like an old friend

A feeling comes back

A drum

Beating loud as thunder

In between dreams

A scent lingers

And like a whisper

Fades to blue

And yet the song

That plays in my head

Like her smile

I could not forget

This magnificent creature

Unlike a dream

Is a masterpiece

Of pure beauty

Like the drinks I throw down

This reality

Is much too difficult

To swallow

An echo

Too difficult

To suppress

From within a hollow shell

Of twenty six summers

I muffle a scream

There, somewhere

At the top of the world

Wherr stars glow

Not above the clouds

But at my feet

I shiver at the thought

Of respite

Stoned, mesmerized

I pray that my eyes

Not deceive me

That this chance

Not pass me by

For this flower

Is much too fragile

Too precious

If only to wither

In someone else's hand

I wish not the things

Mere mortals desire

But a home

Beyond what is known

To leave my bags

By the roadside

And heal my wounds

But if this journey

Does lead to nowhere

And the scars

Were meant to linger

Then perhaps

This is where I belong

For I've not much to care

Up until now

I pick up the pieces

Fragments

Of what once was

My heart

I've died an endless death

That night in April

But even if I put my heart

Back together

I could never be

What I once was

But Never

Is a long, long time

And Nowhere

Is but a faraway place

And I am only

A lost soul

Caught in the midst

Of here and now

With not much left

But a name

And who am I

To question

Destiny

Or its wisdom?

I have grown

Much too weak

And pain

Has become an ally

I can no longer

Resist

Her ethereal charm

Nor the urge

To hold her hand

To be free

And for her to know

I love her