Mind Power

He learned the powers of the mind,

and with direct application,

fashioned the images before him,

creating an empire of wealth,

a playground of possibilities and soon,

a kingdom of retreat from those ignorant and starving

to acquire such authority.

Alone in his dominion and dominated by his loneliness

he tailored romance into the script,

the best money could buy,

but she was of equal mind power who wrote comfort into her script

and the painful discovery

left both parties solitary and searching.

And though he had it all,

he had nothing,

a palace which echoed pain and walls that held no stories.

But his mind carried on manifesting flavors of the month,

until one day,

weeping beneath cobwebs in a bare room,

he lowered his head and sputtered,

"I do not know the way"