INNOCENCE UNBLEMISHED

The time has come
For me to go
In search of a path
I left aeons ago
A corridor filled with innocence
And joy
A rivulet of waves
Riding high
A crest here
A star there
Ripples running everywhere

The foaming froth
The wafting wind
They sang a dream
To the restless moon
A tale that made
The old man cry 
But the message that came
Atop the waves
In a bottle
Told another tale
Of reality that rode another wave

Now as I stand at the water's edge
Wishing I was far away
Its murky depths twirl
A mermaid’s eye
An echo reaches my wan eyes
The stealthy hours
And shadow nights
The barren sands piled deliriously high
The fragile shore, its warp and weft
Innocence unblemished as yet