The Sojourner
Life Poetry
Walking down this dusty road
Shaped by those before me
It crumbles behind face
As I sojourn in this place
Grassy lands begin to brown
From under my bare feet
Egressing over the landscape
I sojourn in this place
My panicked heartbeat holds me still
As I, alone, have somehow killed
The future that I once had traced
As I sojourn in this place
But sunlight warms the crown of my head
And I forget the grass lay dead
And fields ahead had hope effaced
As I sojourn in this place
I sit among the dust and sticks
Hazed by warmth and comforting licks
Of sunrays slicing through shadow lace
As I sojourn in this place
The road collapses inch by inch
A great, hungry Nothing, black abyss
Swallowing all behind my face
As I sojourn in this place
I feel the rumble in my body
My failure imminent, come to haunt me
I lay encased in ecstastic daze
As I sojourn in this place
The crumbling of the preceding road
Slowly saunters up behind me
Un-graveling, un-raveling, growing, approaching
As I sojourn in this place
The edge is near and I fall down
Disappearing, dissolving, I drown out
Past and future lost, effaced
I forever sojourn in this place
more by A. M. LAINE
photograph by Erik Johansson
