The Land Of The Alter Egos
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What do I do
When life turns me
Upside down and inside out?
What do I do
When she tries to dig out
My deepest shades of grey and black?
The tests of Life
Seem too brutal
For a young heart of glass,
Still blooming from
Its early dawn of childhood.
Maladies stalk me
Like shadows in the dark,
And death like my shadow
Follows me in life.
Life and Death- two alter egos,
Synonymous.
The woods that teemed with life
Now seem a graveyard in the dark
Haunted by fear and evil plots,
Waiting to pounce upon an unsuspecting soul.
The sun long gone,
Hidden behind clouds of doubt
Has taken good judgment
Along with it.
The crimson rose in Life’s hand
Seems like a dagger red,
Dripping with the blood
Of innocent souls.
“O judgment, thou art fled”
Said Marc Antony
And I laughed it off.
But now I see the truth,
Or is it not?
Like an angry swarm of bees,
Lurked howling dark forces
Waiting for their prey,
To cast a blinding veil.
As I walked through
The ruins of a bemired path,
I saw broken dreams left to rot
And long held faith left to die.
This place seems a world of undead
And death seems but an illusion,
As life once did.
Are life and death two illusions extant?
Those who live die and
Those who die live,
Or so they say.
But does one really die or live?
Now in a long time
I saw a ray of hope,
And when I followed it
I found a blooming heliotrope.
When I looked up,
I saw the Angel of Hope,
Glowing golden under the sun
With a faint mesmerizing smile.
From her white feathered wings
Fell a delicate snowy feather.
I caught it and kept it
In my pocket, close to my heart.
Now I know
I must go on,
From this land of the alter egos
To one of truths and answers
To my innumerable questions.
So, fare thee well
Mighty alter egos.
My time with you is done.
~14-4-2014.