deep down ~ below
way ~ way beyond
what seems
to the mind’s process
as the rational norm
for thought
~ is the not so normal
pattern for thinking
not necessarily
irrational thoughts
but those ~
soaked in sorrow
floating aimlessly about
within a toxic
cesspool of guilt
habitually driven on
by disparaging archetypes
upon those waves
stirring the waters
of the emotional sea
~ wherein
flows the forces
of the dark side
with the predisposition
to surface a despondent
tidal wave of dejection
as if having
a sole purpose
the causing of ~
a shipwrecked mind
~ wherefore
obscuring the way
by submersing all hope
for deliverance ~
that sunken treasure
hidden to a psyche
overflowing
with malediction
buried underneath
that seabed of self-pity
peace out
Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~