Friday, August 16, 2024

searching the earth May 25, 2012

 

 

I know it is there somewhere, 

buried deep in the mists, 

the chill, touch of wet on my cheeks, 

is not from tears, 

though I am just as bleary-eyed, 

seeking to fill the vacancy 

of that missing place or thing 

on the other side,

 its spikes stick in my memory 

yet can’t be recalled, 

as if it has ceased to exist,

 or never did,

 the last gasp of a late spring 

from which the flowers bloom,

 just not for me,

 all is gray, not quite a fog 

yet just as blinding.

 I am Oedipus roaming the earth

 in search of a truth I may never find, 

reliving the guilt of a crime 

I never committed.



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