Forge Ahead with Me

Forge ahead for life is short,
and the road -- though winding -- is yours to steer.
Every fork missed an opportunity declined...
Reducing your graph to a chain of nodes.

To an endless road of Euclidean efficiency,
meandering but never wavering.
Passing through, passing by.
Never coming without going.

For time is a prerequisite of vulnerability.
But its effects are robbed with perpetual mobility.
And you, master thief and witness to so much.
Have endured...a survivor among mortals.

A fearless warrior longing for the front,
brave and strong while danger lurks.
and in its absence for it shall you search...
the opposing darkness:  your guiding light.

It is a purpose-driven contradiction,
that stokes your inner flame.
Rendered blind, others may claim fiction,
for they can only see the pain.

I do not claim to share in your gift;
the black leaves me equally useless.
But even when closed, my eyes can see yours.
And nothing so wondrous can exist without light.

By transitive reflection, I share in your sight.
though true understanding at times may elude.
I need only to know what it all means to you.