JOURNEY OF AN EMPTY SOUL

JOURNEY OF AN EMPTY SOUL

     By Travis M. Whitehead

     A vacant soul, dark-shrouded

          Suffocated by false apparitions

               Sanctified delusions

                      Devouring the human senses

Lost humanity wandering

     Speechless through the human journey

          Life without drama, tragedy or comedy

               Blinded from ecstasy, robbed of transgressions

Struggling, aching, longing, dreaming,

       Agonized by lost memories

              Tortured by sacrificed passions

                     Restless for humanity dreaming, laughing, crying,

A bland world

     Of smells without fragrance

         Visions without color

             Tastes without flavor

                  Music without melody

Leaping from the precipice

     Thrashing, flailing, terrified falling

         Clinging to nothingness

                Hungering for sanity.

Safety abandoned, dogma discarded

          Death desired over breathless life

               Falling, crying, laughing, senses absorbing

                       A butterfly emerging

Diving into a sea of color

     A breath of ecstasy, a timeless wonder

          Smells with fragrance

               Tastes rich with flavor

                      Music dancing with harmony

Scented dancers beneath flowering trees

     Winds intertwined with perfume and  laughter    

          Twisting shorelines of rocky beaches

                 Stars whirling, moon beckoning

              

Warm breath, sweet kisses, a passionate embrace,

      Lovers twisting and turning, rising and falling

          A heart beating, enthralled with life

                Beckoning an anguished soul

                        To laugh to cry, to breathe, to dream.