Echoes flash
Down gray corridors
Footsteps of Pain
and her darker sister, Fear.
Guides to the peep-show
Trailing history behind
Like a child's toy
in the mist.

Staccato images
Flicker
Stop
Flicker
Stop
Impaled on the Tree
Nine days to receive the Runes
Slow centuries of the voyage
to drink from the Well.
Sacrificing
Vision for Wisdom

Returning
To see your timeless wounds
Untouched by
Understanding.

With a Tear of Sorrow
I face the Dawn.

© Deane P. Goodwin