Falling Back

I thought I’d reached a crossroad.

My muse and I at last.

I thought that sorrow’d left me here

With anguish in the past.

I’d said “I’d need no sad words”

That I could seek the light

I wish that I’d known better,

I wish that I’d been right.

I thought that anguish held me back

I’d thought my muse was dead

But I look around me now and find

My saddest works may lie ahead

I felt a certain power

In smiling and the light

As if it fueled me, raised me up

There was no need to fight

Darkness is so slow and cold

I’d tried to clutch the day

It felt so good to be there

I wanted just to stay

But she had told me otherwise

My muse she mocked me so

I’d never be without her

To the darkness back I’d go.

~ Ceridon Dalkorith

 May 04, 2013