Guilt's Insistence

Guilt’s Insistence by Odin Roark One’s perception Often lingers amidst stench and flames Where personal battles fought Leave only wounds unhealed Unsettling dust And billowing spirits Weave through porous walls Embedded with crustaceous regret Such battered pasts Remain painful Awaiting our will to cast aside Our self-imposed eclipse And often… Duration too can tire Rendering time’s horizon To drift from consciousness Becoming but faded memory Leaving one shackled With guilt’s insistence