A Child Passed By

Long pressing Bears the weight of the falling world around me Over tinkered days and hollowed years Has the growing spiral of downward turn Unwound before my eyes As my heart and mind Have weathered And my soul and will Have crumbled…bit by bit To the sorrowed step of un-kept time And I I have stood as if motionless Looking on While the blackened vines of ignorance And the fettered thorns of foolish greed Have smothered, as would seem, all before me And while I sat in huddled desperation Seeking not but to continue on in mere existence A child passed by… And suddenly I felt to leave all behind And follow