To wish for peace
When all is falling around you
Like a misshapen origami figure
Collapsing, imploding
Into its own yawning mountain folds
And when all you cherished
Breaks into pieces
The one thing you truly cared for
Shatters into a million disarrayed shards
Like a broken lustrous marble
And even your jigsaw-puzzle dreams
Of building it back from the ground
Upwards to the lonely heavens
Where it once stood, a pillar of hope
With the duct-tape of determination
Fails and collapses
Remaining as the dust of dreams
Caking a sullen floor
And when the ghosts of
Past and the hidden future
Begin their danse macabre
Slowly whirling like dervishes of old
In a terpsichorean stampede
All you want at that moment is
Serenity
Fortitude and
Strength.
1. Strength to outrun
Your imposed shortcomings
The narrow barrier walls
We inevitably seem to cage ourselves in
Like a prisoner on his own terms
Seeking no emancipation
As the buzzards of your past broken dreams
Circle nearer, nearer, ever nearer.
2. The strength to believe in yourself
That no, it's not the end
There's some purpose
Waiting for a pickup
Just around the dreary bend
Something worth being around for
And something to cherish again.
3. The state of tranquility
That elevated state of being above
All that teeters, on the verge of collapse.
And that which soars but fades
Into a doomed descent
On melting wings, into the ocean
Of dreams that just couldn't make it
The ability to steer clear of
These projectiles of disaster
That rend the sky
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When you finally realize
All of these fantastic powers
These glorious gifts
Of soaring over obstables and plagues
Are within that magic-powered
Chunk of intergalactic starstuff
That.
Is.
You.
You.
You can slowly build yourself
From the littered pieces of your soul
And face the rosy dawn again
After the garish neon moon
Of your darkest night is set
With all the halcyon splendor
Of a radiant new soul
After all, when something is black
It doesn't mean that it doesn't have colour
It means that it absorbs them all
So in the darkest hours just remember
You have the spectrum within you
And then?
You have found nirvana.
Crazy, isn't it?
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