Finding

anticipating anxiety was clever and mighty
the precursory label of clandestine fable
that discovered will tell of wishing and well
even the crop of the reluctant
who came and who went
as a token of one well spoken
extending misery to a land in memory
where men were exiled and graves were defiled
by knights of dishonor with intent to conquer
lending a piece of the deceased
to stay and garnish the prey of armies
who went astray one fateful day
the welfare taken to a most forsaken
state of array in foreboding gray
the qualm protrudes and calm eludes
the wholesome tasks of fashioned masks
that made from from forges in the deepest gorges
where lain a-strew by a howling fool
take no notation for pure frustration
will seize you shaking upon every waking
moment from now, this momentous plow
will forever endeavor
to steal the soil wherein you toil
to make things straight, but you know it's too late
inclined to swell yet still instill
the will to house the dreams of thieves
who took their loot to grand dilution
siding with mountains and cavernous dwellings
of wave upon wake, to save for the sake
of donating remnants of someones remembrance
decidedly barren but riding and sharing
what little is known try still to bestow
for barely you gesture while it sits here and festers
the ominous distance between missing a sentence
and gathering storage of something we've foraged
a plot to escape will falsify justice
and knots in the making the ballast will crush us
for this is the crashing, the wailing and gnashing
the obscure is so sure to see insecurity
as disciplined gallows descending to swallow
the crevice inside of the shelves of my mind
the motion to cope, to group and to grope
for an evasive ration of persuasive passion
is followed by melding the time and the talent
with anvil and mallet
formed in the sensation of nerve detonation
deplored is the hoard, a once double-edged sword
which takes the assumption to fathom the junction
of concealed inspiration through selfish dictation
a safeguarded aura shelters more of
the valor's description
while seeking to harbor the very inscription
thus desperate words are fluttering birds
flapping and diving, tapping and sizing
the grills of the oncoming hills
unwritten wills guess similar pages
when unfinished chills flash unblemished sages
words of the terrified must pass writhing through tooth
to flee from the petrified sayer of sooth

by Royce Waxenfelter
8/4/01