A sweeter Understanding

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inked emotions...
                  leap from the poets hand
        onto a tear stained page...
                                another chapter written
                                                in a book that does not exist...
for it is only the musings of a dreamer.

his dreams...
                  cast into the wishing well of hope
        like a coin flipped into the air of chance
                                heads! innocent, imaginative child... filled with fantasies
tails! seasoned, realistic adult... filled with regret.

writing somehow gives him validation as an adult
by labeling him Poet; masquerading the fool as a romantic.

he is sensitive man,
                restlessly prowling through the past
          wondering what brought him to this lonely place
                                when he aches to put arms around her
giving her all that he was and all that he has become.

he is an artist of virtue;
                holding fast to principles
          that reside deep down within his being
                                firmly rooting him to reality like an anchor.

writing somehow reveals his mystery with words for all to hear,
yet between the lines... a sweeter understanding all his own.