Restless Will
O, solemn harmony of lonesome waves
Whose power tolls the bell of dreams!
Your passioned voice of rising freedom braves
All force whose will unfolds resentful streams!
The longing for past lives—though fading—may,
Below the burning sky, adopt a rhyme
Which wilts unseen by light or life, whose way
To weave the calm of night may challenge time.
Concealed by shades of mingled coatings worn
And shed away by hope’s inheritor,
The epitaph of peace is sadly born
To be death’s first and last progenitor.
Once-undefeated powers have declined
To naught since dormant seas of madness swelled
To drown the child of time, who wrote and signed
The edict bound to rouse all hate unquelled.
The pageantry of amity and praise
Forever haunts the idle brain, whose guess
At cryptic answers forms the endless maze
Which human reason struggles to possess.
A wordless anthem favored by the gods
Is chanted round the ocean’s living frame
While Jove is hurling off his lightning rods,
Whose architects bear neither form nor name.
The cold, dark bosom of the gloomy tomb
Where gold is stolen from the lifeless crowd
Is stained with blood by creeping ghosts, whose doom
Is all but certain, clarioned aloud.
The shimmer borne by rapturous delight
When gentle verses nourish, ever still,
The spirits of indomitable might
Sings, loud and clear, the Graces’ restless will.
Below the clouds, uprisen then upturned,
The breeze within the forest of the damned
Grows faint and mute, its voice forever spurned
Beneath the spread of trees, where wraiths are banned.
The ruthless wolves, whose rage was freed
To crawl for freedom, now are old and tame
Like man’s deep yearning to transcend time’s lead.
In such a world, what demons shall I blame?
Find my poems and published poetry volumes at www.eton-langford.com
Copyright © Eton Langford | Year Posted 2016
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