PRISONER OF TIME 2 © 2008

Before the flourish, consistency,

The universal gaze in reverence,

A tear in the heart, so fatal,

Like a dagger in the Sunday reading.

In the truth, that wounds, resistance,

Of the being that seeks, in its essence,

A meaning, a direction, a sign,

Beyond the ceremonial veil.

The lie, a thorn, an absence,

That marks the soul with its influence,

But in love and truth, after all,

Resides the cure for the fatal blow.