Awakening

A realization
So harsh
Only reality
Can take its claim
Silent whispers
Upon the warm
Mountain breeze
Madness
Following its wake
Letting go
Pulling away
Against its clutches
Sanity
Awakening within
Not wanting
A release
But finding one
The promise
Of greatness
Clinging
To the last
Faint glimmer
Of remaining hope…

Joanne Cousins ©

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In the faint light
The lucid stillness
A beating sound echoes
Though as two; infinitely as one
A fleeting memory
Captured by distance
A soothing voice
To disarm the fear
As a morning fog
The feeling lingers
In the darkness
Time subsides
Dissolution forms
A hollow shell
The night devours
Consumes
And destroys
A forbidden remembrance…

Joanne Cousins ©