Woke Up Well

Woke Up Well

Woke this morning, a difference

Things seemed finally copacetic

Redolent of days where fears where real

Shed skin, the anxiety that’s plagued me

To my marrowed bones

For once I slept soundly through the night

Shifts and curves

Frazzled nerves

The inexplicable ego voice

Saboteurs get what they deserve

The woods are thicket deep

The thoughts still creep

A catalyst, conundrum, crazy

The lambs been skinned and nailed upon the door

Sacrifices made, the darkened days

Winter and its fake frigid purity

Blankets white, melts, morphs, slushy grey

Carry Spring within me

The promise of new life, new birth;

Resurrecting Lazarus from the sand

I lay low, deep down buried there

The desert, Ozymandias, crumble, broken

Cement the grains of sand back into stone

I wait for time and healing

To free me from the feeling that

This world has become a lot more than it seems

Perception, my Achilles heel,

Mind plays tricks with their appeals

The real is never really what it seems

How I see me, how you see me, loses our identity

But with nothing, contradiction,

Freedom becomes untethered fate

Liberty from our thoughts and demons greasy sulfur talon clutch

A new day rising, phoenix taking flight

Icarus wings, pray that I’m not burned

And singed, to ashes fall

The mix of carbon with the sifts of sand

A brand new day, another way, to act out, my role in this play

Fire the narrator, begin on a fresh page, the rage, despair, dissipates

A good night’s sleep, the myth we seek

To tell the story we need told

Tranquility to soothe the soul

Rapid thoughts and worries, not today

Each moment is a moment new

A new beginning, seek what’s true

Dispel that narrative that’s been on re-run way too long

Another chapter begins today, shatter anxiety, dismay

The sun will rise late, but I won’t fall waiting for its radiant rays

Woke this morning, a difference

Things seemed finally copacetic

Redolent of days where fears where real

Shed skin, the anxiety that’s plagued me

To my marrowed bones

A fleeting freedom that I feel

A sensation I forgot was real

Thankful for this moment of solace,

I’m finally at peace.

Edmonton, AB, Canada