I’ve come to realize
I’ve seen it all through a pair of eyes
more open than they were before

more searching
than I ever thought
they could ever be.

Searching for real answers,
that lurk
in untrodden corners of this mind

searching, hoping to find
an inner strength
to get through this life.

Some wistful fortitude,
to help me survive
the ravages of a body
wracked with things
not its own
the ravages and the toll taken
by time

I can sense my own body
and how
surviving
against all statistical odds
somehow striving

the intervention of the gods?

Perhaps.

For those gods are what lurk
inside of me
hidden deep within
untrodden corners
of the mind
waiting for me to see
the very presence
of a spirit
so far beyond this plane
the very presence
of who I really am

and of what I can proclaim
to be more than just
a human,

I am a being
and the god that within me lurks
is who I need to be.