Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Reckoning



We are mere specks of dust we mortal men:
Plodding and plucking through the mystic dark
Of this abyss we call life.
We plunge headlong into the thaws of its belly-
Our fate to sate its blistering boiling ulcer,
Drowning in the acrid juices of its bitter bile!
We enter this world as babes;
Blind, feeble and vulnerable-
Groping our way through the dour corridors of life,
Our scopes blotted with obscure cataracts,
Our reach balefully blurred by veiled visors,
Each time we venture to lift our gaze…
The ancient lodestone has lost pull.
The paved path the once led to its sacred door,
Lies petered out beneath the barren sands of time.
The way of the truth is now but a fabled trail;
And buried deep in the bowels of the earth-
In realms lost to memories gone,
Dwells our only deliverance from
   this great-never-ending-fall!

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