divergent pathways

roads diverge

roads follow

roads travel

along byways

and highways

too long to travel alone

too far to travel apart

wandering from the intended direction

straying towards a reflection

of what once was

the call of sirens past

singing their praise

for glories lost

wandering beyond the grave

one must save

such meanderings of the mind

in the present time

lest ye be swayed

and bent to obey

the masses of contradiction

and disruption

with the only function

of chaos breeding contempt

until one repents

the sins of the father

begotten and beheld by the son

of the daughter

lest ye be sent to slaughter

for things best left unsaid

to a child’s ear

within the heart of a woman

within the heart of a woman

lies chaos and contradiction

a predilection to grandiose verbosities

of which there is no recovery

so one must forge ahead

and think before words are said

of the eccentricities within the mind

of the inanities within the soul

of the banalities within the heart

of the compromises within the body

as it tries to comprehend the things

that are better left unsaid

because there is no way

to form the letters

that form the words

of such gross inadequacies of the spirit

there is no way to form the sentences

and paragraphs of frugality

when all one wants to do

is run free with the wind

and play barefoot in the summer rains