Descend On The Wind

 

 

Clear your hectic mind
Descend on the wind
Go on
Fly

Blue-green, slightly tan
Shades of the evening sky
Fight your way into the twilight
Don’t think
Or they won’t let you in

My friend
You should have come along
Life’s not the same without you
And reality’s just frightful
Without your naive insight to guide me

My path is becoming obscured
And I fear it’s going to get much worse
For I love to fight the midnight sky
Spreading my wings and soaring on high
Where dreams are reality and reality’s a dream

I can’t
Don’t want to leave
From this inebriated state of enlightened release
I descend on the wind
And I 
Go on and fly

Alone I feel my confusion
My lost lonely perusal of life
When sad images haunt my mind
Crystalline clouds glide by
Just beautiful as they are
And I must escape before my mind wonders much too far

I never knew I felt this way
As anger bubbles up inside my heart
I feel such an overpowering distaste
For your change

I shake my head to rid my sight
Of all the abandonment I feel inside
I clear my sharp witted mind
And I
I descend on the wind
Go on and
Fly

I close my heart and mind to you
To try my hardest to forget you as you’ve forgotten me
But my dear, beautiful, wonderful friend
I miss you

You’ve flown away to a world that’s too foreign to me
And at the very entrance
They won’t admit me anyway
I’m not like you
Not comical, or beautiful, or overly deadhead spiritual
But here I walk again
Creating my own path
From bits and pieces I’ve refashioned from trashcans

I meander down this rocky passage I have wrought
With acceptance for who I am and who I’ll never be
But my addiction to your indulgent company
Leaves me feeling sickly empty

For so long I have stood by you
And loved you for the beauty that is you
I look for solace in the twilight sky
Where my favorite watercolors collide
And the lady moon has risen high
Casting silver light on the deepening night

I look up at her solitaire beauty
And that for one night it could be me
To cast illumination down through the shadows
And be admired for the light hidden inside

I pause in my envy of celestial beauty
I clear my congested mind
And I 
Descend on the wind
Go on
And fly.

 

 

 

by Amanda Burns

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