Darkened Refractions
By R. Cary
When the darkness presumes, the poem begins
Refracted light retracted, redacted knowledge
Retried in recrimination as the angle presumes
Gesturing for appeal, asking this life to heal
Constructing in deterioration hoping in choice
Lying to awake in swollen dreams embellishing
Conflated outcomes resisting in existence told
In lacking obedience outcomes withheld,
Upheld, defiance an aberration as worthiness
Cringes, meritocracy lost in disorientation,
Once simply so behind revised revisions,
Output increased, light dimming, deceased
Negation, each corner forbidden, unraveled
As the ninety degrees of right caving in loss,
Lessons encompassed learned beyond default
Challenges unhinged as doors were entered,
Faith in compulsion lacking fear, a tool devised
In thriving trust in the ninety degrees, not in sight
As industry reigns over the path of the sleeved
Where refraction heartens our abundance, life
In full circle appealing for lineation unobscured,
Revelation revealed when darkness lacks prevail
As written words solidify mistrust in the benign,
In the divine, in simplicity of knowing nourished,
Encapsulating in not and is, a story still to live
As will be seen, not diminished, a token more
Than just a thought as decency survives
In the presumptions in lies, light will deny
End
Darkened Refractions
By R. Cary
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Poetry & Prose By R. Cary 