by Dada de Dada
Deep in the labyrinth
Where sparks ignite
Is woven a tapestry
In shades of light
Deeply rooted
Like ancient trees
Where emotions dance
To buffeting breeze
The rush of joy
Or crushed despair
Life’s currents flow
Pull and tear
At soul circuits
Which pulse and play
As facts and reason
Meet slow decay
Memory shadows
Twist and bend
In forgotten corners
The past to blend
Distant echoes
Or sorrow’s sigh
Once etched in mind
Now far-off cry
A mind wandering
Valleys of thought
Old trees broken
Much debris caught
Details declining
Facts fade away
But feelings stay fertile
Planted to stay
The murmured warmth
Of a first embrace
A transience
Or a lifetime trace
Melted snow
Of what was then
A feeling
Not why and when
In the story of us
Each heartbeat’s refrain
The essence of living
Is both joy and pain
Pride and prejudice
Bias and bile
Fed by our feelings
Once disguised by our guile
Deep in our labyrinth
Hardwired in place
Feelings lie waiting
For their time and space
So in the silence of our night
Emotion comes, burning bright
In its shadow reason hides
For now it is the heart that guides
With no map of measured thought
No logic path finely wrought
No words to set the frame
No intellect this force can tame
So what is sense when tears do fall
Or joy erupts to break the wall
An edifice once prized so high
Plunged to earth by stormy sky
For in passion’s flame, all logic hides
The heart dictates and chooses sides
Here feelings reign and truth struck blind
Thus blunting even the razor mind
Mind voices whisper to beware
Heart voices shout not to care
Wisdom's cage is sharp and bright
Yet locked by emotion’s grip so tight
Reason’s blade may excise the facts
But feelings charge all human acts
So hear then its laughter
See then its tears
Feel then the darkness
Unlock life’s archive of fears
And at the end of our journey
When surrounded by the mist
Hear emotion’s last whisper …
Perhaps new futures exist?
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