Awesome Spectre

Awesome spectre

Haunting me along a corridor of years

A tunnel that bends

With a vision that obscures

Truth

Missed on first meeting

By myriad ignorance and fears

That bled from others around

Abounding and hovering

In the surrounds

Painted shadows dark

Over a lighter circumference

Now in the depths of winter

Cold house become warm

As soul returns

To infuse the space

Bringing with it

Recognitions deep of the way things

Really were

Deep down inside

Spectre of awesome radiance

Hue of beautiful if painful darkness

Now tinged with shadows of gold

Reveal to me the meaning

That hidden deep within

The tangled confusing byways

Of this haunting

Is a profound new awakening