Dispute

Oh you unmeasured vastness
You expansive sea of dark and light
Courage has to drink itself
Before it dares to look upon you

Bodies stumble, blind by eyelids
Made heavy by the weight
Of what there is to see
Potential must drench itself in flames

As courage dares not walk
And knowledge instructs sight to guide
How must I step
With contradiction gripping my heels?

With my, now half-ash, blazing potential
Becoming camouflaged with dust
Brandished out in front of me
There’s nothing much to trust

Hope’s head hung low in sad predictability
Of the decisions repetition, solitary exploration
Leads a trail to the dregs of what
Was never meant to be found

There potential is extinguished
By the shame of self control
Only ignited by the admissions of selfishness
And by the surrendering of the soul