'The Other Side' by Astrid Scholar

With the dawning of the sun 

Comes remembrance.

Desire,

To reach for Icarus,

Burn through this opaque parapet 

Of greying memories,

Pealing and foul.

Once spoken to a priest 

From lips parched,

of truth.

Lingering and lost to the wind. 

Still we gaze beyond,

Towards a sky of sublimity,

Defiant against the stench

Of age, slouched in senile lungs 

A singularity escorts me 

One step forward,

Towards dolor.

A downpour.

past pain against the cool of a babes corporeal form,

Hunting,

For the hidden truth 

Lying dormant within 

The sky casts out its line 

To lift my chin,

A reason to persist. 

Beyond the horizon 

A virgin thought, 

A chrysalis- a shifting of old flesh 

Commanding space, 

To breathe. 

Harnessing the turn of the tide 

Poseidon’s reins clutched tight,

Ready to retrieve the new.

For I know,

there are true wonders ahead 

Elucidated, made possible,

by the sky in my head.