Balrog

When it emerged I cannot say
but it resides within.
Pensive crinkling passing sways,
a reflective focused cringe.

A reason can be rationed, clipped,
and kept for fortune's sake.
Resting, stripped of context, bare,
it strictly motivates.

Decisions made and plans for things
fall back on trusted methods.
Keeping track of posturings
secures a place contested.

This time, that time, cycling thoughts
reveal a line of sight.
Its corresponding choices based
on instinct, chance, and slight.

Residing winds they dedicate
their whispers cloaked internal.
Based upon these predicates
polemics duel diurnal.

The wizard says "you shall not pass,"
this or some such thing.
With breaths of fire the unleashed beast
will lunge, retreat, and sting.

A sentence brings to life a voice
with forces bearing witness.
Traditions, time and space, a lark,
a retinue linguistic.

Held back he casts compelling spells,
his nostrils flame and flutter.
Her wisdom crafts a sublime shell,
she breaks through, laughs, and putters.

Obscene cretaceous grotesque hollow,
ham on rye conjunctions.
Pitch-forks lashes legions swallow
instigate assumptions.

Reinforcements shielded metal
shocking brilliant rays.
Snarling drooling frantic nettles
incandescent brays.

You will recall a motion passed
prior to your convalescence.
The regulations firmly cast
in distinct formal lessons.

Why yes, oh my, I can't forget
that reason pacifies.
So many alternate responses
quixotically collide.

Certain arguments remain
the product of cohesion.
You must remain astute and guard
them from a vengeful lesion.

My heart goes out to those in pain,
my sympathy as well.
And negotiating blunt disdain
is virulent pray tell.

The years will pass in time you'll come
to settle into age.
Watch as the tears go slowly by,
forget about the stage.

But this can't be these ways and means
they use to structure being.
To turn and look the other way
'gainst all the flanks reseeding.

A faucet drips and drips and drips
into a pool of water.
The tides roll out, roll in, roll out,
an ocean's distinct fodder.

Recall recast and reconsider
thoughts sundry and prolific.
Unify, detach, belie,
coordinate specifics.

Invested docile relegated
ignoring the absurd.
Blankets, chimneys, slippers, stated,
ripples rippling cured.

But that's not up to me they say
as Foucault turns and stuns.
Without him we'll never seize the day
nor know truly who has won.