* MUSING * Written by Elaina Mar 2021

echoes meet my lips
silenced
in anticipation
darkness pulses
insistently upon
my chest 
a cavern
forged with conflict 
etched tales
engraved upon
sworn images
depicting a
wild mystery

I whisper
I pray
I stay
and still
is all I can be
still alone
still broken
still bound
thoughts
without escape
hushed
again by presence 
quiet dismay

to be 
unstained 
like poetry
infinitely wrapped 
in destiny’s tapestry
each word, 
color, form
loosely bound
a fragile unravel
fate’s final fray 
barely ahold
yet limitless
as if a dream

bound only
to clarity 
becoming
legitimately 
and genuinely
free
power commanding 
the one 
the only
a true
sustaining 
ever brilliant 
me