Windows and Doors

out through the window flows my imagination
from inside a room where may others exist,
similar but different are they all, each has their
own textures and complexities... and, the door
that leads out to the door is just one of many
always left open so that our journey may be
somewhat simplified...  doors and windows
to my future take me, moving from one room
to another in my mental paradise...  living the
dream as they say in some foreign country
with favorable feelings towards the one left;
light shines in through the glass of each
window or door it confronts, bending around
those without transparency like those who
have more than something to hide...  silently
our wills bend with the light as they pass by
and through these doors and windows on a
quest for a better life...  silently they peruse
inside our minds looking for the darkness
in which our true feelings hide and when 
the war is over, there will still be battles to
fight and integrity to lose as we are guided
by those who perceive that they are better.

December 16, 2023