Category: Architecture

Unintended Shadows

I work hard
With intention
To express
And create

Heed artistry
Inscribe wisdom
Apply passion

I lay bricks
Upon a foundation
Build them up

Until they are taller
Than I

Until they are taller
Than trees

Until they are taller
Than mountains

Not to prove
That I am bigger
But in homage

To what is bigger
Than I

In this realm
Of time and change
And buddhas long forgotten

I sit
Then breathe
To quiet mind
Of learnings misbegotten

This land once rose
And then it fell
By men of mind besotten

Of gold and gilt
And opalescence
The shrines we build
To gods and money

I have walked away
From so many things
So many places
So many people

Myself

Left so much behind
In faded memories
Lost to time
Distraction

And repression

Scattered remnants
Run down and undermined
On burnt red gravel

Reminds me
Of Saturday morning
After a long week of long days

The world provides
Such an abundance
Of the strange
And unknown

I try not to let
My ignorance
Confine my experience

I have discovered light
Emitted by many sources
Each illuminating
The world in its own way

But the light which guides me
Burns from within
And from there illuminates
My true path in the world

There are places in this world
Where fairytales
Have always been true

I have these dreams
Dim and dark
Or are they memories?

Of a battle
And a castle
Shrouded in grey

But
For fires
Raging

And my loved one
There
Life threatened