Sometimes in the dark still night
I lie sinfully awake

  Wishing only to accost the echoes of
   Your footsteps beneath the stair
   Or catch glimpse of symbolic shadows that
   Might convince me that you’re there

Ebony blankets me out of sight
It’s cloak I do take

   I climb impervious forbidden walls
   That separate us in my mind
   Swim dangerously past the iron clad gate
   To some key I hoped I’d find

Shimmering stardust beckons twilight
Dream state I forsake

   Revealing the dangerous journey trespassed
   With reckless abandon to find you
   I survey the trail and my now scar swept heart
   Wondering, are you worth all I go through?

12/29/2005

Posted on 12/30/2005
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