Zephyrus Within

Zephyrus Within by Odin Roark Do we fly away Drift away Stay away Or were we ever real? How fleeting the impressions Plummeted by the New today Dismissing yesterday as the Old Daring tomorrow to invent further questioning The labels abound Father Mother Sister Brother Daughter Son Lover Yet how much a part of each other Are we? Might it be We are but separated cells Incubated into life Rendered a sameness by others Yet in reality Thirsting for fulfillment Compelled to wander aimlessly We stumble through existence? To argue such a theory Is to know Along the way Seasoned lives find Connections sever That like all of nature Separations occur Drifting inevitable Attachments wane Collective experience Fulfilling the essence of life Still… Such eventual enfoldment Leaves us free to adventure To know self-determined identity Requires but to hoist liberation’s sails Catch tomorrow’s wind Leave behind misbegotten time And if true… To watch from afar The flotsam of the past Is to know destiny is of our own making Not a determination by others That sweetness of air Breathed from Zephyrus within Unshackles the relationship with self