The Secret

I will seek this final twilight flight
In answer to love's plaintive cry, and attempt
One last time to find the fading passion
Slipping from yesterday's dreams ...

I must endeavor to reach those distant shores
Before the merging rays of Autumn's burn
resting there, now dormant,
Scorch and forever remove that unsated
garden, of ancient bloom's first promise ...

Are those saddened eyeshells watching
from a distance, glistening in cobalt blue?
Why this splattered heart continues to tumble
from incomprehensible pain,
I just can't seem to stop these lingering traces
and jagged arteries
from leaving crimson footsteps out there,
In soul blinding rain ...

Give this one the edict decreed
before the sands of time held in abeyance,
With shrouded veil seditious,
Unless this code unlocks
The secret of the ages,
The secret of love's capricious pause ...
by:ajs