Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Lurking One

The starling of the east

The prey to the wind

The wood in which we rest

Calls out to me in sounds I can not comprehend

The mysterious little bird continues to call to its own

The hopeless balloon entangled upon wires of doubt

The faces stream by in melancholy, mundane procession

And I, the spectator, watch in awe

The monotonous register clinks of coins

The passerby smiles with tainted breath

We move along with the caffeine

We remain unaware of the lurking fiend

The starling departs its clumsy perch

The laboring server turns the lights down and locks the door

And I await the next stream of life to pass me by

All the while the black knight perfects his schemes

He twists the minds of his prey with a stable train of thought

But this train spews the black smoke of deception and yet charity driven will

Only in a flash, the Holy Ghost intercepts the mind

He trains my mind for truth

And my train clinks along the rocky track

No longer blackened but with the window of a lucid, blue canopy

Hovering o'er me

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