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The Wing & the Burden

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STILL afloat: persevering at each shore
That may seem, would I comply
To render me ensconced... the voyage to draw
Beyond the compass
And what is more its buoyancy to sustain
While dashing billows the old sails try
Life's vigil to conclude with life's refrain-
The calm before the storm
Untimely night
The pond'rous fetters of the storm
Cling when untethered
Upon the floor they smite
Thus given vent sways the storm in revelry
And brazen mockery
Why plunge into a wat'ry grave
And wreck upon sea's edge
Never to reach for which I crave
And my very soul might pledge?
Against the waves the vessel was matched
And intermin'bly, when overcome's the breach
From high upon the breakers launched and dispatched
Until at the craggy beach
Where shattered rest the carcass
Now subject to decay
And scattered tangly slivers of wood
Bound to rot away
What holds is but of brittle bone
A canopy of curved boughs
Neither grave nor engraved stone
In oblivion to drowse
Lest of the cliff the mere base be the end
Do I scale the precipice
Without wings which larks from ether suspend
While gapes below the deep abyss
But vertigo alone
Though precarious th'ascent remains aloft
Cannot tip the balance nor respite prompt
Nor win the last moan
But comes another, the tone still soft
Then trees recede and lend me view
A glade remote, briars piercing through
A mossy couch a singing lady's made
Until again they cast their shades
So did thoughts: suggest to me still
The quiet of a dark repose
And at the same time inspire will
The primrose path to oppose
Either way I will proceed
Why slacken a sluggish pace
When toil may very relief concede
I can well-nigh embrace?
Since here is not where I can rest assured
That to rest my lay be laid
Since proximity has ardour restored
What can me dissuade?
But, should I leap at the wall?
The timeless cauldron gape I saw
The void in which to drown my cares
And stifle my but hoarse-worn call
When yet again I wash ashore
"Dissemble not
The winces stirred by wry convulsions:
Recuperation's near
"Wretched convalescent
Stagnant are the ancient waters:
Redemption's here"
Of what green's that sheet of moss
With which my bed she drapes?
Nothing more but the amb'guity
Which consuming decay or growth shapes
A sheet with which to smother me
Makes me argue the self-imposed toss
Have I thus wrought a shift of aim?
Non sequitur
What mysteries does she hold, or hold
Divulged, but me against my will?
How can beauty that's static and cold
Yet lose itself, and lose me still
For I am resolute?
"Like a wolf in sheep's clothing
Illness assumes
Recovery's guise
"Is even willingness no
Salutary elixir?
Beyond resilience your headstrong
Fever carries on"
No and even so yes
This selfsame state, once the port
Now the sojourn, one of call
The height has crumbled
Or have I in this:
Disharmony
Bent and snapped the tight-stringed neck
As to the heart
When no string can life uphold
Numb and stale within a wreck
The question dawns upon me
Whether the encounter I might have created
As such without authority
Or I was the Proteus
Still afloat: the isle receding
Into the distance, as level upon level was closed
In mists the hindsight impeding
The tide of aurora has another day posed
Credits
Ordo Draconis

Ordo Draconis

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"Wreckage" appears on "The Wing & the Burden".

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