Meridiem -

Of all the bleak and brilliant

Beyond the tarnished glass

And all the howling agony

That shall ever come to pass

I can speak not a word

Open doors, a myriad

Futures lie beyond them all

The years have brought me here

The tedium of wax and wane

The cyclic flow of sun and rain

Beget that ebb most terrible

When fantastic grows mundane

Wistful wind has always lured

Even kings to misery

O wanderlust, the gilded promise

That sirens never keep

This transition spirits me away

Left alone, I ponder

I find my heart ensconced in shade

In the middle of the day

As one in my conviction

To wander…

To wait and wait and waste it away

To pass forever into a day

Extinguishing the flame

Just to keep the moths away

This will not come again

I hear the fool I used to be

Asking breathlessly

If I still believe in the dream

I stand defiant

In the shadow of destiny

But there is one thing that I wish to know

Does the dream believe in me?

Push me away

Compel me to stay

Tear me away

This transition spirits me away

Left alone, I ponder

I find my heart ensconced in shade

In the middle of the day

As one in my conviction

To wander