Bloom

It may be day or night I can't tell Shapes take on faint forms Never manifesting fully Light and life seem distant Like faraway stars Present as an afterthought In the pale dark Distant voices call From behind translucent walls Reaching out to strip the senses bare As if all that we knew disappeared Light fills our eyes for finite time Our souls in bloom A fleeting moment of lucidity that fades All too soon A vacant panorama Grows vivid for an instant Blink and you'll miss it Claw at the scenes Stumble off the edge of a dream (A dream beyond belief) Distant voices call From behind translucent walls To the world, we open up our eyes Only to close them again in due time Light fills our eyes for finite time Our souls in bloom A fleeting moment of lucidity that fades All too soon Unbelievable clarity Elusive as wind-up wings (Flying beneath the veil) Beneath the veil of all we see Light fills our eyes for finite time Our souls in bloom We reach towards the sky Then wither and decay All too soon