Copyright 2001 - M.D. Burke

Fabric of Life I am an abstraction Out of an endless nowhere An intricate anguish both translucent and sublime The summoner of shades The veil of desires Settling into a small dark silence I move through a stately calm Weaving otherworld verse Soulful as time unfolds around me With no discernible change in expression Solitude fills the room with a profusion of sorrows Isolation eroding my will to go on All things come full circle Disturbing and pursuing my soul Filaments of emotional traumas Twined into the fabric of my life I close my eyes And drift into a dream remembrance Precious moments retreat into memories Becoming subdued sculpted images blending into nothingness Breathing erratic gusts of flickering thoughts Something cold and unseen touches my shoulder A deliberate silent echo Spirits spelled to dance Wavering on the edge of my awareness Dark movements of shadows changing shades with each diversion of prayer A time must come when all this must converge This perplexing connection with otherness But will all this be revealed to me? And do I even have the right to know?