The Hungry Road of Destiny

The Road traverses once again,
and I am caught amidst the brambles
of lives decaying all around me...
I close my eyes...the road still rambles.

Past quaint vistas of amber grey
and dawnlight bathed in misty green.
These ancient days, not long ago,
seem so resistant, so pristine

to all the chaos I have seen,
bore witness to in failing light-
The sweet surrender of human nature
to the ever constant acolyte...

we call Hope, into our grieving state
and drown soliloquies in tears,
quite aware that we are dreaming,
and have been for countless years.

And all the while we carry on,
proclaiming Purpose at our stead,
when all the while, in secret hours,
we resurrect the living dead.

Cold memories to stir our sleeping,
figments of the past unfold.
We drag them out onto a stage
they are too large to hold.

They have become like eidolon,
a massive fortress in our head.
We cannot bear to bury them,
so we take them to our bed.

Our bed becomes the universe,
so much space, yet so alone.
We toss and turn and never sleep;
Our garden is so overgrown...

with weeds, and shadows,
lust for life, and so
we wallow in this keeping
of a harvest, never reaping
any flowers, and seeds...
stray thoughts are cast like weeds
upon the flailing winter wind;
The road retraces once again
the beaten path, the riverbed
lies hungry for you up ahead.

Beware that it may swallow you!
Tread lightly midst the field of dreams,
and feed it with your memories;
Sweet whispers morphing into screams!

I am here! And I am now.
Remember me as you return
into that which you are keeping;
Barren harvest, never reaping
and flowers, any seeds-
The hungry road is paved with needs
never wholly satisfied
until the need itself has died,
has given up the glowing ghost,
envisioned in its purest form
is nothing more than sanctuary
from the future's coming storm...

The road traverses once again,
and I am cast like stone to sea,
a sacrifice unto the moment
that feeds into Destiny!