Lioness emerging from dark cave.

The Return to The Den

The whispers had reigned in continuance 

In the thought of anguish, the voices elapsed 

Insanity became nature

Eclipsing the shutters of a fleeing light

Distasteful to the luxury of respiration 

Inundated by a guilty verdict

One appointed by self 

Inept to a peripatetic passage 

To bygones of sorrows and disarray 

Remorseless to a past-due repentance 

Swelled by a lustful passion 

Of a feather saturated in ink

Smeared on a ledger

Illustrating an estranged self

Of philautia, it seeks

The return to the den”