unreachable

there is a place I go

deep within

where no one can reach me

and no one knows the tangled paths I travel there

lost highways winding their way

beside stormy oceans

laden withmonsters lost in high seas

eclipsed by tides the full moon wrought

there are depths I navigate

of which I cannot speak

for there are no words to tell of how it feels

to be tangled up in seaweed

or captured by the pull of ancestral tides

that roll around me the dead bodies of my kin

and so

if you try to summon me from this place

and I turn upon you my gorgon’s head

will you run away in fear

for you see

sometimes I truly believe that I am lost

in a dark place

where no one can find me

there is a place I go

which no one knows

a place within which it seems

no one can ever

really reach me