This long night

This long night,
this sudden shadow,
a mar of ashen trepidation
served on a visionary buffet of extremes.

Decayed twilight vows
leaves morning's ruins
erected altars prepared for slaughter
of last eve's fumbled strategies
for winning messiah lottery
at local cathedral convenience store.

Anxiety's escape hatch opened
to zoo for stallion deliverance
out of melancholy's sewer treatment plant.

Stumbling precariously into abandoned play land
where scribes of pubescence
claim bones of forbearers died from terminal risk.

Anticipated wasteland becomes park of self discovery
inner epiphany scroll unfurls with intuitive fingers,
sagacity's lights glows from dawning lucidity,
wisdom's language written with butterfly strokes in tranquil hues,
peace drapes over conscious with still voice assurance,
passage in spiritual pilgrimage booked unknowingly
from steps out ignorance's dark chasms
and into park always thought was graveyard.