ANSIR® Profile: Empath / Healer / Empath
Boss: Empath

Waiting Waiting Waiting

I lie waiting in dark corners
labyrinths deep and cold.
Watching endless proverbial
walls growing things
organic we skins
sucking parasitic rusts
like minature cathedrals
timeworn upon my soul.
And I know, in my heart's heart,
that this shall never end
so long as I embrace it,
so long as I remember.

My grandmother had a basement
with a murky dungeon smell.
Moss covered ancient bricks
concealed reverie among
empty jars forgotten dirty
without the jams and jellies.
Blackened candles exhausted
in the rubble strewn random
formerly clutched in childish hands.
Innocent hearts went forth alone
daring to pry secretly inward.
Daring to search the unknown.

My dreams give rise
to earthy fetish and songs
older than this dreamer
could ever fathom today.
Images course through me.
Ashen bones and decay
bring forth life's essence.
Hallowed be the day
when I no longer rouse
to fear the earthen tomb,
to shun the somber relics
of my deepest places.

I am alone in this dark place.
Yet, I empathize with many
lost children hidden even now
such pain unrealized.
In one wild brave moment
I delve deeper still to find
my personal anguish lives
and will evermore be here.
And, I know, in my heart's heart
that this shall never end
so long as I embrace it,
so long as I remember.

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