Confrontation With Evil - Part Ii - Fear
Part II - Iambic Tetrameter aabb rhyme
Part II
Concealed in dreams, revealed at dawn,
The dark brings demon things thought strong.
No morbid mood can now contain
Feigned pride residing there in pain.
The dreadful dark of dreams means fear,
As shades and shadows now appear,
In early morning forming light,
Selecting scenes and stealing sight.
No pill can fill the empty will
Consuming and seducing still
All brevity and clarity
Of ones own personality.
To realize reality
Is nothing more than what you see
Inside the prism of your mind,
Confirms the evil there to find.
Each day may start and part in fear
(relief is just belief made clear)
When life's confounded all around
Your ears will hear and fear all sound
From days when all you thought was true
Depended on a vision view
That took the book of facts and claims
And mastered making names and games.
The fear that clears your dreary dreams,
Will float around your moat of schemes
And leave you neat but not alone
As fear is near its final home.
Now so confused, bemused and used
These needy dreams leave you abused.
What light or might or higher sight
Do dark dreams seem to glean each night?
Now lost inside you cannot hide
Forsaking all your waking pride;
What curst incursion must be made
To take and make you not afraid.
Fear will hover over sorrow,
Reaching, leaching living marrow
Deep within the bin of bone,
This fear will reach but not atone.
Copyright © Tom Mcmurray | Year Posted 2010
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