Faustian Flame
By sheer ignorance
I towed a dream pigment
Toward the wrong side of dawn
T’was my first dalliance
With despair
Unknowingly I crossed
The threshold of childhood
In the winter of innocence
Bitterly time wept
Like a hogtied wind.
Somehow there was
A consuming sense of torment
At the center of life
Yet a strange force was keeping
Every mangled piece in its place
And as I stared into the rimless void
I realized that the dream I was
Pushing across a field of sunshine
Was the reality
Of my greatest glory
Then the voyage into the heart
Of creation began
But what a misfortune
I was left behind to sustain a rimfire
For the darkest alley of eternity
Unfortunately
Faustus grabbed it
For a fleeting magic
Of a breaking bay