Day 13: Labyrinth

Courtesy: ZhiPeng Song (modified)

Like a chapter starting up in a children's story,

The details of my life unfold rid of glory,

Existing as indifferent as the stars,

Evanescing as calligraphy carved on the waters.

It's fleeting like debris swept off by strong current.

Constrained and consistently living on the edge of torment.

Rising and falling with time's own waves.

Like the route through a labyrinth, you can't map its ways.

Like a memory that ought to stay dead confounds us

Awaking again like a mummy defying the confines of its sarcophagus

Evoking that sunken sensation that won't go away.

Here lies a star fallen, lost, confused and above all played.

All at once, like dried up leaf which photosynthesizes still,

Hope arrived stamped on the wind like a seal,

Consuming all I am springing high like the tide.

Spectacular like an old fight birthing a new life.

Akpan