Discovery

Beneath The Earth (AwSprite) Wk - 1-2

Beneath The Earth

I awaken, wistfully blinking dandelion

Fairies away, no longer leading distant

Travellers astray, using bewitching wiles

Of mine to beguile and betray.

Yellow skies quenching my butterfly

Lashes of Elvish kisses, once upon a time

Granting meddlesome wishes.

Winking and fluttering in ice glazed lands of

White nights, my gazing eyes of cornflower

Blue flickering in fickle candle-light.

A fine feminine youth stands within - where

My memories of past years await burning,

My heart for deliverance is left to yearning.

I strike dew dampened rock simpering

And sulking beneath the earth of creative

Birth, riddles carved upon baked bark by

Dragonfly quills, hidden within incandescent

Daffodils.

Laboriously caught and chained, I live

Through raw routine roughly ingrained,

A single bronze coin at the end of each

Day, how little hard work has come to pay.

Perspiration rolling from my brow and

Malefic mind, raggedy clothes trailing

Behind, by shining pickaxe rubies rain,

Cascading in hours that wax and wane.

Black daylight consuming all in low and

Winding halls, bleak and drawn the melody

Of clanging metal ringing from dusk until

Merciful dawn.