Rapture

Shrouded in silence
As if our dark veil of mystery
Hurried despair
Rushes the imagination
Over the desolate land
Into water

Boats carrying the time
Away into the white loss of eternity
A fear of the unknown
Runs about the recess of the mind
The empty mind

Full of black & white
The contrast of life
Water & land separate
The real from the lost
The black from the white

An ocean rages
Wildly searching the heart
Leaving the mind
Finding the real
The white face on the black shadow

Mystery?
Come!
The color dried up
The ocean emptied
The mind cleared
Allowed to wander

Not wondering
Stuck on white over black
Black over white
Conflict

The boat flows away, gently swaying
Into the dark recesses of the mind
Reality shop holds tight
A fight between black & white

Originally Published in Questions for Water; a Book of Poems (Columbus, Ohio: The Artist-in-Residence Program/ Wexner Center for the Arts, 2002)