Sunlight flickers in the morn

Like morse code announcing

A new day has born.

Greenery rushes by

To dash towards a haven

Hidden in the sky.

Groggy beings both sing and dance

The words of wonder and of woe

That speak of life’s great romance.

Yet against this grand delight

My laden heart still does seek

The dark disguise of endless night.

For though I love, still I fail

To rise when rising

Ought to stifle my inner wail.

Oh, but far beyond this game

That plays with me and I with it,

There lies a place of nameless name.

There the silence rustles to wave

Hello to tears of anger and of joy

Whether one is meek or one is brave.

So I, both placid and in a fury,

Unsheathe my pain and plunge ahead

To travel where all is clear and all is blurry.

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

completed at 7:45 AM on an Amtrak train from Providence, RI to Washington, D.C.