In the Darkness
In the Darkness In the darkness, in the still, I go where others cannot go. I have been there before and the journeys are not sought. I return less now, but the portent of it lingers, always in that quiet time. I am glad you cannot go. I watch you sleep. It calms me, and resets my mind to time and place. There are other battles, of flesh and spirit, ahead. I cannot win any but spiritual victory, esoteric and primitive. But that, at least, is something. No, it is everything. Everything. And before I take my chances of foreboding journeys again in the darkness, I refocus on the paths I must follow now and try to leave those others, those in the darkness of another life, behind me. Your soft breathing lures me again to slumber. And I summon my warrior heart. Keith 11/30/23