City in the mountains

Reality

Nausea.

A hand

reaching inward,

clasping viscera,

and ringing it out.

A clash between

love and pain,

trust and deceit.

Disavowal

blew away

with the wind.

Acceptance.

Empathy

The path an eternity, 

time had lost its grasp.

Unbearable weight

...incarnate

within intertwined fingers

Had nature no discretion?

twisted.

robbed.

I had seen

but did not understand.
My own weight 
insurmountable

I looked again,

again,

and again

and finally felt
the tears
...suppressed.
concealed.

the weight

resting within those fingers.

Mosaic

Puzzled.

Broken shapes

unable to be reformed

...remain disjoint.

A witness

but not an advocate.

A spectator,

no role to play?

powerless?

bereft.

Sunrise from Jordan

Adventure and War

Thuds against the door

"To adventure," says the wizard.

Refusal to be constrained,

free

imaginative

limitless sky

each new step having its own identity

---

Colors muted.

Guises razed.

Signs of faltering humanity.

sadness

anger

limited to act

life itself devalued

Distance

Restless

Suspended in air, the floor just out of reach
...reaching still

A constant visceral pull

pining?

stunted