A Darkened God Unto One

Alas! Very much weaker force was I then myself, a lesser god unto one I that needed not a solitary friend soon found life not much fun With my brutal command over the lesser me I ravaged across scarred ground Each morn found much more to reject to see stacking stones by the pound Oceans from pant of blank-eyed stares reeking of stale intensity Night's darkness only lit by dim flairs and misery bound in its immensity Pallor of my realm, a gutter in disarray bundles of deep thoughts torn Yet found within my folly was abject dismay at creature of my mind thus born Leaping and dancing on old narrow strings I fell into a blazing silent sun Woke upon hearing my spirit as it sings in this new realm, my life undone Fate thus appeased by this new measure love found me walking so proud For life had suddenly found its treasure and bright sky its newest cloud R.J. Lindley Oct. 3rd, 1977