The Forgotten Land


There's a land

so close

so very close

yet you fail

to reach-

blurred by time

you're hopelessly lost


in the labyrinth

dim, nebulous

untraceable

that somewhere

you can't cross


the chasm

the divide

the split

the broken

the dross


and then

in some strange dream

as on your bed

you toss


the froth

drops off


your feet

on their own

will somehow

travel back

in time


to where you belong-

none other than that

which is your heart

alas!

the lost land

where you were born

is rediscovered

and henceforth

no more

will you need

to seek

and nothing

will you depend on--


the mist disperses

and is irretrievably gone

and mysteriously

your life is reborn