COMES TODAY!

Feel closer to my hopes

After awful, long contortions

Twisted 'round my dreams

'Til they were blown out of proportion

Mimic like a man

Couldn't see him in the mirror

But now as time has passed

His focus comes quite clearer

Tireless longing

Is exhausting every day

But it's hope that fuels the fire

That won't let it go away

It's a constant contradiction

To be in love with someone else

When they're lost off in the distance

And nowhere close to self

When they're faceless

And the space is

Too much to demand

- Some long retort

Just stand and argue

With the mirror

And all the claims

- My dreams exhort

Lost within demands

- The mirror doth purport:

"You're a fool – trapped by desire

- The only truth that "I'll" support"

But that fire burns inside me

Simply refusing to go away

Argues back at that reflection

That it's here and come to stay

Shall not surrender to self loathing

Shall not give in to long delay

Shall not give in to frequent failure

But survives with voice to say:

"I am your fire and it's coming!

I've steered you headlong through this path!

You give credit to your God -

But it's I who did the math!

I don't discredit you – believer!

But I carried you this way!

So smell the smoke -

My burning ember!

Your fulfillment comes today!"