Into the Darkness

The tracks

Were outlined

Clear in form,

Guardrails designed

To keep motion forward-

Weaving in and out

Of center point-

Where messages gathered

And traversed this way

Then that,

A way of communicating

Born eons ago

And altered until perfect,

A wondrous notion

Of intuition and evolution

To become a working,

Highly functioning being.

But then what happened

When man took hammer

And others took ax,

Knocking upon bridge

Creating blips

Spotty points

In carried message-

A haze formed

A once legible word

Now a row of squiggles

Indecipherable from last.

The damage hard to see

Unknown to the naked eye

A system of cracks

Fragments and dust

Where structure once stood-

A bridge weaving in and out

Awaiting the next strong wind

A gust just needed

To tear it all down

And end the line

Of communicated thought

And leave mind’s dwellers

In the dark

Awaiting the next call

To make a leap.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet and novelist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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