The journey began in a month of joy.
And seemed filled with intoxicating
Carelessness.
Doused with benevolent enmity.
Baptised into pretended trust.
My innocent heart waited.
And with indepcipherable longing
Marked time, for the duplication
Of our souls to compress themselves
Into Oneness.

With disarming candour,
Already detatched
Before the
Beginning of the End.
Alluding to enamoured influences,
I held within my arms,
That witch I percieved as truth.

Then looming out of the
Valley of Betrayal
Across the Vale of Impediment,
All I had of you.
All I had of me.
All I believed.
Ceased.

In a single mindnumbing sentence.
I was blinded to the impending
Loss.

First of you
And then more of me.

Invalidity. Unusable. Unaccepted.
Became the Catechism and Dogma
That caused even my soul to believe
Elaborate Untruths
About me.

And then with no foreword,
No prologue.
No announcement.
Peace began to embroider
It's own pattern
And a new tapestry, with affectionate

Transformation,
Wove a new portrait of me with a delicate calm.
And placed at its centre,at it's core.
A rare and costly
Labyrinth of Self Worthiness.

And finding my way through.
Found the welcoming door.
Of Redesigned Serentity.
c SF 2000