39. Deep within

There’s another place

beyond the confines

of the darknesses within.

It spreads its bright compassion

in gentle sorties

upon the channelled boundary

we have built.

The duplicity of its exposure

reveals itself in all its richness

and the proof of our incarceration

in the passing of days.

Inside, deep within,

in the padlocked

privacy of knowing,

there’s another place.

Another place, untouched by time,

and the pillaging of fortune

where the pilgrim sun also rises

but never sets.