Defying the abyss
Time does not stand still Ever moving ever changing Sweeping some of us forwardOnward into what is futureBreathless with excitement The unknown what will beBeckons with a moving handThat slides silently acrossThe face of anticipation Perhaps leaving others behind Fixed in the static past Never again to push throughThe barrier of transformation To find freedom or release The opaque veil drawn across In an ultimate finality The sand in the hourglass Slips through the waist like gapGrain follows grain a steady flow Measuring the moments Between that which wasAnd that which has become A process of translation Decoding the events of the pastTransmuting them into wisdom A journey linear in experience But made cyclical in its intent By each lonely repetition Caught in the gapBetween old and newFrozen balanced on the precipiceToo afraid to pull backToo afraid to move on My soul asks why but there is no answer To the question echoing silently Across the vast chasm Desperation reverberates I stare into the abyssSensing it waits to claim meI have reached the jumping off point I defy the abyss and reach outGrasping the hand of hopeAllowing it to guide me As the wheel turns once again