Reluctant Dawn
Hesitant awakening ...
misty veil reveals another
24 sixty
incremental uncertainty
Retinal unwillingness
Indecision guides each fretful,
retrograde step
Nocturnal blurred moral vision
offers no lucid clarity ...
only ethical neutrality
What’s the right thing to do?
Hollow convictions refuse to ask,
opaque principles
don’t have crystal
clear courage to bravely choose
Ain’t nothing left to soul salvage,
a gluttonous life
squats out enamel feelings empty
Leaving just a cockatrice shell
of tear-tainted desires
Temporal reverie of carnal thoughts:
gold mind lust
foolishly lung expired
The rosy pleasures of youth has age withered;
a sullen heart shattered,
pierced by thorny choices from fallen pain petals
A reluctant dawn
reoccurs
in the sunset years
Dwindling light of hope
presently disappears
As grave, past misgivings
take hold
of tomorrow fears
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2019
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