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                         wind, shadow & sand

 

tomorrow stealthily lurks in the dark shadow plains

whispering promises sometimes made to be broken

secreted away in the sands of its billowing winds

ride unwritten truths that go on never spoken

 

dreamers struggle with the confounding complexities

strive hard to maintain some modicum of composure

still they hand their hearts to the merciless winds

with risk of being ravaged from their naked exposure

 

the taking of chance when the wind offers to dance

can lead to the steps paying the tune little heed

when head will not swallow what heart wants to follow

neurons misfire between sheer want and true need

 

an unheralded plight when wind pummels the night

with long lament for what should never have been

the sands cache the wounds with a slow pillaging rust

preventing light from revealing the spaces unseen

 

while hope wanders a maze in the dark shadow plains

denial keeps on pushing it further aside every day

and time reluctantly carries all the burdensome weight

  of

         grains of sand

                                    in shadow wind

                                                                 blowing away

                                         

                                                 

                                 

                                           s. paul   (Aug. 2021)

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