MUSEULOGY

Contoured reflection outlines a face of familiarity

challenging each enslaved sentiment

with a dare; a challenge to break free

As the hint of an upturned frown adds adventure

to dimpled corners with impish excite

hinged on a smirk of forgotten pleasure

The revellers in the background laugh on a backdrop

drawn by the mirthful hand of a forbidden joke

unaware of beauty playing hide and seek with speckled cloth

The visage etched into past records of a virtual future

is displaced out of reach from the outstretched hand 

of one in throes of memory and dark humour

Fly away raven hair, to an urge that is higher

Far from the hiccups caused by constant remembrance

as constant as the tide that regularly quenches the fire

Fly away patterned gold that hangs beneath the grey

Burned by a whisper that dissolves oblivion

Into a portrait that demands the right to keep away

But leave behind the appetite for yearning

The occasional escape to a land utopian 

where a mere drop flavours artistic endeavour to an often repeated calling