Sorrow Seeking Sorrow

 

Sorrow seeking sorrow

For the moments it can borrow

In between what’s hidden out of sight

Danger courting danger

Behind a most familiar stranger

Through a mottled maze in deep imposing night

 

You can’t leave until you fall

Dodging bricks tossed from the wall

Beyond which something wondrous grows

Delivered silence with a thunder

Rapt in anguish from each blunder

Divergent from the secrets unexposed

 

Life unmeant from a hidden sore

With best intent but little more

Oozing out from porous powder kegs

Heart in twisted web gets caught

Laid open begging for one shot

As its futile pleas get driven to the dregs

 

What garden can maintain its green

While waiting for the fatal scene

Misdirected by a bitten crooked hand

But in a ghosted world of strange

Still one can fight to bring a change

And feed the hunger to grow & build & stand

 

And this faith shall not be strayed

For the risks are far outweighed

By the magic in the souls that stake their say

The elusive happiness that’s sought

May soon emerge and then be brought

To the table of a bright and better day

 

 

                         s. paul   (Nov. 2020)