Madness or Serenity

Madness or serenity?

Betwixt the two extreme

The dreams where I’ve identity 

Seems to produce its mean.

 

A missing link so puzzling

Piece by piece, a thrill

Rushes, then beguiling,

For peace is pieces still.

 

To heaven I’m addressing

To find a-law I cry-est

In trenches mediating 

Shout I, “Oh, I’m the shiest!”

 

Serenity or madness?

Stream I betwixt the two,

In Styx it seems a sadness

Pervades my wand’ring view.

 

But if honesty’s prevailing

I must accept a train

Of thought ne’er once derailing 

That depth is brought by rain.

 

As the rays of light chase midnight

Residing in wells at noon

The ephemeral glints of insight 

Discloses my heart as strewn.

 

Then the Word so chases darkness

And it must condemn the crime 

Committed in the conscience

‘For I e’en e’er wrote the rhyme.

 

Madness or serenity?

Betwixt the two, a scene

Erupts in anonymity

As a calm before the dream.