AMADIS

bois epais

redouble your darkness
give me gloaming glooms
and the dusty dry darkness
of fallen
trees and leaves

this is no thrilling collection
of fast forward still frame
scenes
but if it appears to be so
it is only because of
my intermittant
attention

this walk through the shadowy times
of self imspection
and deadly change
is no greek drama
no romantic's idyl
and unfortunately
no holy child's walk through the Valley of Death

No, this shadow
closer to Freud than to God
is my own undoing
and my own darkness
this is the struggle against
fear vs hope
ignorance or truth
dark and light
on/off

the speckled shadows of trees indifferently wise
are the space where I take my stand

bois epais indeed.