visionquest

when burdened by the venom
of an often toxic sojourn
holy becomes the hope rendered
and in a wrestling heart wrought
as the fatal fever drives my drifting
a wanderer athirst in a trackless desert
and although faced with its own devastation
in a life at once consecrated yet cluttered
my spirit awakens to this inelegant journey
that has left me with the unadorned damage
crafted from wounds potently bent awry
as if guided by the unseen skill of a hidden healer
in order to facilitate a renewal which bestows upon me
a mission inoculating my own opulent opaqueness
which loves but fears my itinerant efforts at openness
from which i can herald the wondrous rubric of a visionquest
hewn with the palpable strength of a concealed craft
shaped by a poignant but obscured love
who chooses to dwell with me
in the entrenched crevices
of a mysterious and at-times shallow living
that has transformed a simple life
into a wandering witness to such glorious grace