It appeared shorter, smoother and surer,
Easier, beckoning, enticing
but once our seduced feet
Set off on it
The road became long and longer
and our enlarging lust glued our feet to it
and we got stuck and sucked in
The ephemeral glitter, the vanishing flashing lights
left us lost, clutching our harvest of cheap gains
and dense chaff
eternal virtues abandoned
redeeming values jettisoned
Our lust locked us in, stills locks us in
and still locks us out
of our possibilities
and we walk and trudge along in loose losing circles,
muscles aching, limbs limp, souls sore
minds racked and feverish
our days now empty, our nights long and limp
A constant rush of rash
dull but disturbing lights invade our nights
stagger into our sweat filled dreams
these dreams filled with uneven riots and battles
In which demons and angels contend
For our souls and our wayward soles
mornings are stale and dark like the days
We trudge on
in ever widening circles and sterile cycles
in our fatigued state, we clump and stomp,
our alluring Journey’s end
now hazy, dim and receding…..
Outcomes from our feverish indecent haste of the past
now visit our present,
ghosts from our past,
they clamp our limbs like dead lead
And us, miserable us,
still blind, obdurate as if cursed
very reluctant to return
to the basics
to start anew
rather preferring to sift
the blowing and bellowing winds
for a harvest of fresh fish
Reflections 