SHATTERINGTHE VEIL

 

SHATTERING THE VEIL 

Defying imagination’s iron-clad chains,

I claw through the haze of today’s ash-streaked reins,

Tomorrow’s horizon explodes in a riot of hue,

Jagged streaks of saffron and cobalt anew,

A tapestry torn from the skull’s rusted frame.  

No acquaintance blooms to ignite this blaze,

Yet it roars alive in the mind’s shadowed maze,

Subconsciously, it seeps through cracked, earthen seams,

With every dawn’s groan and dusk’s fevered dreams,

A wildfire licking at despair’s brittle cage.  

Each sub-par bite, a Waffle House hymn,

Grease pools like amber on a plate chipped and grim,

Sizzling bacon spits in the skillet’s black maw,

I’m catapulted skyward from this grease-smeared flaw,

To betterment’s summit, where clouds shred thin.  

Laughter erupts, a geyser of molten gold,

Blended with blue eyes, oceans fierce and bold,

Their depths churn with tempests, a sapphire scream,

Anchoring my vows in their crystalline gleam,

A lifeline lashed tight through chaos untold.  

Commitment hardens, a granite vein splits rock,

Continuance thunders like a pendulum clock,

Roots rupture stone with a visceral crack,

Binding me to you through fate’s howling flak,

A fortress forged where tempests once knocked.  

Enraptured, I plunge into tales spun raw,

Your daily deeds crash like waves on the shore,

Each word a pebble, polished by life’s grind,

A symphony of clatter—forks, storms, and mind,

Delivered in gusts through memory’s flawed door.  

No latitude here locks my boots in clay,

No arm’s reach falters in this wild ballet,

Fingers stretch like branches through a gale’s fierce bite,

Clasping starlight shards in the ink-soaked night,

A canvas slashed open where freedom holds sway.  

Unrestricted, I teeter on cliffs of chance,

Opened to endlessness in a tidal expanse,

Waves roar and splinter on reefs of bright bone,

Dreams collide like thunder in a sky overthrown,