Elusive energy like
misbegotten passion
illusive and fleeting
for only a moment
then it is gone
like a faceted stream
of sunlight showing
prisms radiant as
diamonds vanished
as sunlight fades
Elusive energy that
fans out before you
star dust moonbeams
only captured in
dreamless sleep
© January 2012
Renee Espriu
Prisms of color are touching the
corners of my mind with images of
ferry rides across unsettling
oceans of water a transport to
buildings of monumental size and
walls trimmed out with barbed wire
uninviting and cold beckoning with
unseeing eyes holding lives unable
to live, unable to speak their
truth with no one to listen but
unmoving walls devoid of a heart
bereft of a soul because when you
enter your life is no longer your
own and your spirit apart alone
© September 2011 Renee Espriu
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