I do not know
whether black or white
if the clouds
have chased the sky
out of sight.

I do not know
if my soul sings,
whether darkness
or light
what melody is hiding
within this mortal cage.

this journey has been long
these paths they twist and turn.
with there ever be a time for dancing
rising to face a new dawn.

and so the rain clears.
the clouds they race across
a startling blue sky.
all is quiet,
a peace
soothing a restless soul.
gentle goes this day
with all it's challenges,
at the end of a racing mind
I have found a place of quiet

i am caught between the earth
and the clouds.
no room for soaring
no soft earth for falling.
i am caught in the undertow
carried along by the violence
of the surging tide.
i am struggling to gain the peak,
earthbound and listless
in the darkness of the trees
oh for flying
like a bird on the breeze,
no eagles wings here
just the grey
of an average day.

The darkness has returned.
The black and the night.
Sometimes flecked with grey,
sometimes suddenly bright
but, in the end I know
the darkness has returned
sometimes seeing
sometimes without sight