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
Copyright © Odin Roark | Year Posted 2014
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