Walking in your shoes my bleeding heart swells in the ignorance of your mist.

A chord that twists and bounds us to universal struggle I carry on my back to ease your burden.

Lifetimes of searching

Sorting

Scouring the wastes land painting a dark picture to unveil the brightness glaring upon our sidelines.

Grace holds the parts fractured by the haze your brave bounty reach tapping the wilderness for more.

Left out in the cold

Walking through the valley of shadows

Tripping over false community

Superficial comrades out of sight

Out of mind

The hermit stuck led by the light

Beaming hope and wishing love

A chosen family brought together by shared mission and collective vision

The invisible spirit holding its spot

Till truth rises to the heart linking and joy

I wait patient and isolated forming fantasies of matter molded carefully

From pain transformed into wisdom.

My face not quite clear in the ripple

Splashed into eyes sting shock

Sudden cold

Relief and refresh

A second only to wipe clean yesterday’s grit

Temptation to dip another toe

Mangy marsh fit only for the marvels in untouched habitat

Protected by human hands

Formed among painted signs

Boundaries begging to cross

My teeth emerge in a still

Gleaming in time

Slow motion

Wings overhead

Trees dancing perfectly cloned

In the ripple of the quiet clear.

Waves crawl back from deposit of grist and gravel polishing jagged glass of years usage of satisfaction tossed out to vastness. Free all pockets of secret cheek glow to rise in bold multiplication of vulnerable puniness magnified with the sacred passion of time. A window poking a hole speckled by glitter of surrender to a love not promised in the shakiness of uncertainty. Final judgement calls that all confessions laid not on deaf and praised with solitary joys in authentic jitters to expose the foolishness of the heart bold enough to love yet again.

At some point all shame wipes itself away in the gray hairs of multidimensional experiences that bother not the suffering of habitual life.