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I Have Walked
I have walked a thousand miles
Along these dark and dirty streets
Suffered my share of tragedy
Discovering the things we wish we didn't see
I have seen the light
Religion, salvation and bright
And tumbled back into darkness
I have found truth, hidden in the most sinister of blackened lies
Created explicitly for this white bread fata morgana
I have known evil
I have known it to rise like the serpent
From the most innocent of virgin hearts
To smite down the weak
I have traveled
Long and far on the border of my very sanity
Flipping from one side to another like a demented coin
I have worked
Long and hard to pay my dues
Toiled in the back corners of back alleys
Where you'd like to believe I wasn't there
I have loved
Expressed love to receive love
To leave love in the hearts of all mankind
The very pleasure seeking that corrupts everything
I have learned
The reality we all must face
In that place of wretched despair
Found reformation and formal justice in the pages of gritty legal texts
I have known fury
The destruction wrought by one on his fellow man
And the rage of vengeance sought to be returned.
I have been happy,
Joyous moments of consummate laughter
Blithe enjoyment of utter nonsense
I have mourned
Tears of immaculate sorrow
Their prolific streams of tattered despondence rent from the depths of my soul
I have dreamed
Dreamed up puffy white clouds of weightless flight
On ethereal wings of hermetic freedom
I have lived
Long and furious,
Fully and wonderfully
True and bounteous
And as these amber waves of pain wash me slowly away from this earth, perhaps I will be reborn,
I doubt that there's anything I would change
Because I would give it all up
To have done it all again
© 2005 Eugene Aarons-Cooke
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