Soul Sanity

There is a light in every precious soul

It overcomes all fears

It sends all pains away

It is a warming light

That transforms icy depths

And balances all chilliness

Until with breath aligned with inner cadences

All rising and all falling becomes moot

And ending curtains your pursuit

2

There is a light within that we can’t see

A crystal diamond buried in the folds of innerness

It’s dizzified there under our strange gaze

As if it had an urgent unknown date

With something luminous and far away

Is there no saving presence even here

Can we not fashion something elegant

Perhaps a duck-billed platypus

Emblazoned with detritus of fair memories

Derived from recent archeology

3

For I confess at birth I lacked a color sense

And had no need to honor the numerical

But neither of these absences could faze me

For in my solar plexus lay a lucky star

It said there’s nothing out there so immortal that

It can obliterate your inner fancy

Fine let tear me limb from limb I will not perish

My immortality’s not visible to eyes

And I can travel wonderful where nothing goes

And freely wonder why I’m caring less and less

What happens, what may be, or much at all

Oh, I have riches so invisible they aren’t perceived

They’re even inaccessible to me

I could not spend them without losing face

Or having to take naps with strange personages

5

So there it sits as weird as strange movies

That rest on vague conjectures capable

Of forcing composed faces into fear postures

Confusing the fine lines twixt death and life

Strange, when I turn it off it vanishes

And I have given scant regard to curiosity

Who needs it when the future’s set in stone

Do tell, yes, tell it all, and convince me

That everything I see is fantasy

There is a light in every precious soul

Wherefore that Light shall ever be Invisible

Along with every need for sanity