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Rhymes - 25. Restlessness
Restlessness tugs
Even at the hem of my dreams:
Where I seek
Quiet solace.
But assured, I have not been
Since…
I wake and wander
With brief respite
In occupied minds:
Of numbers and strings,
Of logical language,
That pose less resistance
Than the words
That seem to fail my lips.
How quiet my hearth
Has become
And silence, heavy with
Barely a whisper
Of wind in the trees.
And the threads of fate
That bound us all
unwind in their spools
As time spills
Ever forward
And aspirations,
We were never too sure
We had, draw us
Into a perpetual march forward.
Has my heart forgotten,
The mode of its reach?
For it yearns,
Unrelenting.
But now is not the moment
For these questions,
For our goals flicker in the light
At the end of the cave
Within a hair of our grasp.
So I shall drown these
Dogged questions,
Whose answers
I’m not certain
Would yield less uncertainty,
In deep slumber
And rest
These tired hands,
And perhaps,
it too shall soothe
My weary soul.
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