SPELUNKING

SPELUNKING


I visited a place
within, today,

a place so dark
and deep and filled

with pain and grief,
I hardly thought

I could escape it.
I have carried it

around with me,
within, for years.

I thought to have
exorcised it, long

ago, with the light
of understanding

and forgiveness.
But no, today,

I spelunked down
again; and there

I was, lost once
again in that same

place, so dark,
and deep, and filled

with grief and pain.