Category: Abstract

Stairway in the Heavens

She couldn’t afford
The stairway to heaven
So there it was

Floating weightless
Just beyond the reach of those
Born too low, or fallen too far

In the moving sand
She saw them dancing
The elves and sprites
No one else saw

She found that sad
The world was a more beautiful place
When magical creatures danced
A shame no one else knew the magic

There are colours in the sky
I had never seen
And patterns in the world
I could never know

Until I looked through a lens
Clicked the shutter
And took the latent image home
To explore the possibilities

I sat
Relaxed
Settled myself
Turned my consciousness inward
And breathed

Breathing in
Breathing out

In the quiet
I observed
The peace
Of my mind
Of my body

I cannot find balance
Without loving darkness
In equal measure to the light

In the mirror
It was just the one tear
In the many streaks of mascara
Which struck her… wrong

The tear was wrong
The conditions were wrong
Her love was wrong
He was wrong

Her life… was wrong

Nowhere to land
Nowhere to rest
Details blurred
No clear subject

Frustration
As true in art
As in life

Strange forms
Provoke me
To alter my idea
Of strange

Which alters my idea
Of beauty
Which alters my idea
Of love

And so
My capacity
For compassion
Grows

It has always been
When following a path
With iron-clad conviction
That I find myself
Furthest astray

She saw me
She saw right through me
To the other side of a nothingness
I wasn’t able to fill
Wasn’t able to see in myself

And I couldn’t see her at all
Well, what I saw was fractured
Misaligned
But that wasn’t her
It was all I could see