The Inner Conflict

Tossing, turning amidst the silence

My soul cries out for inner peace

Peace that on a stormy and treacherous day

Can leave this broken man unshaken and unperturbed.

I try to break free of these emotional chains

These agonising and overwhelming chains of doubt and fear

In vain I try, because my mind, my very being is held captive.

O for freedom, O for the gentle peace I’ve often dreamt about!

But as i lay and close my eyes, I’m taken to a world beyond time

To a place where peace transcends.

I know nothing, lost in oblivion, till I awaken to the fierce reality

That grapples my very soul. I’ll rise to face the trials those never

Ending cares, I try so very hard tho’ they never seem to disappear.

It’s no ordinary conflict that has unleashed its poisonous venom

inside me.

I take comfort somehow, that soon the night shall come and

As I close my eyes, all these fears, all these incessant problems

Will be no more, as memory evades, only another traveller, only

Another dreamer on this road called life.