Fearless Absolution

Our irrational fears of life's pitfalls
So oft' mar the potential for life's pleasures.
Once experience lingers awareness in a taste
It dost scar an immemorial trace.
Yet does thou not dream to sail to the horizon, mindless of Columbus' edge?
An older, wiser man would sip the elixir of youth to reclaim the ignorance of juvenility.

The fearless child sits and plays with Beelzebub himself,
Neglecting to debit regard with wins and losses.
The child's zeal is instead granted to the game itself-
A wash of blissful naivety exempt from consequential flaw.

The clock strikes a motion in time
Chiming for the coming of age and the departation of guiltless agenda
In it's place come hesitant steps, stopping in their tracks
Ears prick like thorns as the eyes seek twice the detail.

Do you remember the sweet blithe novelty
Of lustful ambition in all it's unburdened glory?
Why not again, my love
And indeed why not at a greater length?

I now a scholar in rejection's aftermath,
Intake no desire with even a small pinch of waning doubt.
The covetous hunger need not be silenced or hidden away
But pampered and fed until the caves of Lascaux could not conceal the combusting delight of unrestrained award.

Though I, merely scholar
And not yet a master
Held in constraint until permitted freedom's lease by your personal relinquishment-
Find struggle in strict repression
Yet force justification in a manner of denial.

Fleshy appetites on their own may be choked in the physical fight
Though a meeting of the minds proves a more ardent force to throttle.
Since absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Avoidance surely tightens the coronary muscle, and coats it in a thick abstinence.

Instead the heart should be free to expand,
As do the lungs, or the wings of an agile bird
Soaring into atmospheric vastness.

Open your eyes my poor, flustered caged swallow
Or I shall kiss each lid in turn
Tenderly trying to reach your soul at the gates.
You need not be afraid of congenital aptitude
For in wanton indulgence,
Fearless absolution awaits.