© January 22, 2025 by Paul M. Combs, Jr. | All Rights Reserved

To seek the truth of reality, I let my mind flee,
To grasp forbidden knowledge, I drift beyond me.
Time slips through the sands, and I begin to laugh,
Another era calls—a fragment from my mind’s own craft.
Another place appears, like a photo stilled in dream,
Ephemeral yet vivid, alive in the unseen.

My focus sharpens on a kaleidoscope world,
Where colors clash and blend, their meanings swirled.
Shapes rise monumental, light refracts with grace,
Echoes span from Alpha’s dawn to Omega’s embrace.

In this space, I glimpse my inner being whole,
Yet the truth I seek evades my restless soul.

As I slide deeper into the hourglass’s curve,
The world around me twists, unsettled, disturbed.
Philosophies clash, and logic bends its spine,
Airplanes halt mid-flight, defying time.
Candles burn faster than bullets can race,
And bullets explode into debates on disgrace.

Infants die before their first, fragile cries,
Disease spreads rampant as innocence is sold for lies.
This world is not the one I hoped to find—
Its distortions claw at the fabric of my mind.

So I lay my thoughts to rest, seeking peace in sleep,
A dreamscape from the psychedelic past I keep.
Where Lucy in the Sky met the masters of art,
And love, not war, stitched together broken hearts.

Uh-oh—half a day is gone,
My weary mind grows frayed and worn.
It won’t be long before I sleep with the night,
And fade away into yet another flight.