No parchment nor sweet onion,
shall dare their minds persuade,

When devils dance with candy sweet,
and move like seas in sway.

When careless minds find more to gather,
yet time finds them alone,

They loathe the inconveniences,
which nest likes host in home.

Fine the wind it blows in swift,
to switch the mind in stride,

open your eyes, the mirror waits
do welcome in your pride.

I am suddenly awake, a thousand impulses reach me in a fanciful flurry.  I realize all at once that I am at at a loss.  I am physically broken and spiritually shaken.  I lie in wonder.

I am like a man who has suffered a head trauma.  Suddenly I begin remembering not only what has occured in the past few days or weeks, but also who I am, have become, will become, should become, am becoming or maybe was becoming?  The questions swirly like a shifting wind and all the while I still marvel at how they are in my head.  I am suddenly awake, yet at a loss.

Where have I been the past few weeks?  My King has sent his most trusted search party to scour the highlands and find me, wounded and defeated, somewhere in the distant plains.  It appears I have attempted a journey that my own two feet have failed to sustain me on.   What a pity, I think.  It seemed as though I could have made it at the time, but at the time I had made such a decision I must have been in a silly mood.  The distance looks far to broad and wide now that I am suddenly awake.  These feet are far to battered and these legs can barely stand even in the cool of the day.

What a silly man I have become, am becoming…was becoming?

I pray the latter of the three holds true.

But a moment, time is slowed,
hours stayed, hours hold.

Gaze in wonder, love divine,
age is ending, age and time.

Swift to leave it, swift to move,
lost reflection, simple truth.

Why the quiet, must it leave?
fading swiftly, finding sleep.

Always ever, passing still,
dare we quest, soon fullfill,

Fading swiftly, ever gone,
hold it fast, hold it long.

Great and dear, like sweet memory,
His children, age to come shall see.