A Child Passed By

Long pressing bears the weight 

of the falling world around me.

Over tinsel days yet hollow years 

has the growing spiral of downward fall 

unwound before my eyes.

As my heart and mind have weathered,

and my soul and will have crumbled

bit by bit…

 

In sorrow to the step of un-kept time 

and I, I have stood as if motionless -

looking on

while the blackening vines of ignorance,

and the tangled thorns of foolish greed

have smothered, as would seem, all before me.

 

And while have I sat, huddled in desperation,

seeking not but to continue on in mere existence…

a child passed by

and suddenly, I felt to leave all behind

and follow.