Behind The Eclipse....

I'd always, (always)
wanted to step out from
behind the sun,
to reveal myself
to myself,
(in orbit)
around ideas and years
of creativity
left behind me in a trail
of bread crumbs
that led me back
(to the music), to the poetry of me
of me and my life, as I began to
pick up the tiny pieces, and work
at collaging them back
together again.....

I started to learn myself
(and began)
to appreciate what I had done
even though
I hadn't done it
purposely
I had (really) become
that which I had been
afraid of becoming.....

An artist, with words strewn
across the fabric
of a very long
effort, and time
and now I see myself
emerging
from beneath the sea
(behind the sun)

fist clenched,
bursting from beneath
the surface of
the water
(the eclipse of my life)
the tattoo, that I
have painted
on my left shoulder
I've carried this for
eons
a burden that I would
bare again
if not for
the sun, the moon
the magical kiss
(I missed)
while hiding
behind the eclipse.....

Tony Taylor  (Chicago)