Wander

I wander the fields of thought of morning mists and milkweed of a thousand smiles and tears. of longing, and wanting, and lusting, and losing.

I wander the meadows of the mind caressing shards of truth and hope of rays of sunshine of anxiety-Induced outliers of dinged darkness shrouded by light.

I wander the forest of the soul cursing the infertilities of reflection of crushed mint underfoot of cascading hope and coursing acceptance of too many years lost.

I wander. Sometimes alone. Sometimes not. I wander

Irrationality

Rational irrationalities circumvent the scope and context of life awaiting confrontation of equality gasping for breath at each laugh weighing the thoughts that skew

Wondering the itrational beginnings time immemorial, immaterial longings to become one with nothing nirvana or apathy?

Confusion reigns and rains upon the streets of feast and famine lives won against the sea of anxiety lives we fight for unknowingly yet the irrationality of this all is the only rational thing

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Disillusion

Illuminated alterations guide from androgynous circumstances one knows not the pathways of light curl and funnel around the chimneys of the minds eye

Awaiting each of us is Disillusion the modern mockery of the anxious Disillusion stalks the recesses of the self Disillusion hides amongst the weeds of hope

To confront Disillusion is to lose But the bitter triumph? Reflection

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Conceptualize

Conceptualize the space between moments those imperfections that last a millennia those desires gone in a flash conceptualize the pursuit of a thing the scent of scintillation, the taste of silver those infectious delights conceptualize the thoughts that bring disgust, that bring love or lust, those boundaries the shift and merge those ideas that blend into finite things conceptualize the idea that although things may not be but , Oh, if they were

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