What once was pleasurable
Has become painful replication of reprisal and fright
Needs for rest evicted by non-tranquil thought
Impatiently awaiting re-occurring light
Motionless taunted strength
Tormented by unchaste dream filled near-consciousness
No longer able to control the surroundings
Partly able to sway awareness
Deeper into static voyage
Irreclaimable is the ability to influence the traveler’s path
Answers to uninvited inquires interrupt free thought
At the sacrifice of protective aft
Thunderbolts of illumination
Spear the unwilling eye of preliminary conscious, freighted
Taunted obligations forcing the inevitable ascent
Once more the stranger is reinstated
© 1996, 2017 Tim D. Coulter Sr.