Across the Rubicon

Drowned in pools of suffocating light, I can but see the world above. Through eyes of youth and minds not dulled by the rust of age I gaze upon a void callused by clouds of cautious doom

With trembling legs and an aching soul, I breach the bonds of eons past Stirring the wounds that shall never heal, I felt the rush and the fires of raging cries Shattering the calm that plagued my self, I climb beyond the depth of buried light

Embracing the joys of my newfound path, I donned the robes of ecstatic fears. Striding down and expedient void, my eyes were wrapped in the poisons of distant love Blind to the perils of my shadowing depth, I cast away the husk of my protective womb

As the ages passed with my blinded self, I met new faces of love and hate But as the binds of my shackled life were shed upon seas of distanced lands I became faced with fears upon fear.

Ravaged by the fright of my nightly foe, panic struck discarding the bonds of life and bliss Thrust with cries of unrelenting screams, my eyes were torn open to gaze upon a land of morbid dread. Crying out against my muffled bonds, my soul and youth escaped with the last of my graceless tear.

Ever weary of the expanse throughout I took in life with the face of death Bearing young and an eager youth, I can but hope to cloak him with light of my protective love But as with me, he too shall descend... upon a path where he can never return