by Kelly Steier

Created on: February 07, 2011

Inner Light  

The moon lit sky across the fragile Atlantic Ocean

gave a haunting glow to the rotting boardwalk that ran for miles on end

starting at infinity and ending at eternity

and made its way around again and again.

The harsh winter winds tossed the snow covered sand around in a turulant fashion

that created a mist of  salty recollections of what could have been

And she walked alone and tired,

far too exhausted by the mundane reality of a life not quite lived,

aside from the fragments that remained

in her barren heart.

The inner light had long been extinguished by the notion that things would never be

quite the way the story book had written

and fate and fear walked hand in hand far to many times

and youth had turned into a sullen gray form

that had its momentary fulfillment'

and than faded back to that nothingness

that crept deeper into the edges of the night.

Lost among the ruins was a spirit that once flew with the excitement

of what could have been and yet never was.

It was what it was and it is what it is and all notions

of much else seeped sadly into the brittle ground

like the inner light that was no more.

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