~The Road Less Taken~

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Façades

Often times when I go to bed at night
I wonder.
Wonder why I never seem
To sleep tight, sleep warm –
To sleep at all;
Wonder why things are like this
When the grass is brighter on the other side,
A side we cannot seem to see,
For reasons we obscure from our own view.
I wonder where I wander,
And then I wander where I wonder –
Into my grand façade for a little shelter.
But I don’t dare to make it soundproof,
So every time you scream, shout and scold,
My brave resistance crumbles to pieces,
As if the little sands of time
Would slowly wash these walls away –
Or not, by your very eyes.
And then, as these same sands
Wash me away and beach me ashore
In dreamland,
Love appears through the cracks,
For a fleeting moment –
A singular, shining moment –
And then it is no more.

I stopped to rest at 7:03 PM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...