There was once a time when I knew the edges of space
And there I stood at the gates belong to
That which some would call heaven
Though at that time I was, but a child
And because of my innocence; I only knew ignorance
Even at that moment when I was prevalent with an ongoing lack of knowledge
My heart always perceived what was just
But in the ages that I have come to know
My thoughts have become stained with the horrors of the world
Therefore, I took this innocence that I was once familiar with
And locked it away, so a part of me would remain forever pure and virtuous
Yet I knew not that I had hid away the greatest gift
That all souls perpetually hold
I understood nothing at that time
And this may explain why I give up my heart to learn of my own exsitence
Although now I have became empty again,
For I have lost all sense of self, and all the knowledge that I possess seems vain
…All but the piece of me that was properly disendowed
Forsaken so long ago
Was this light of a universal cosmic abyss
A piece of paradise that has always remained so wisely naive
And one that I must now reclaim.
~ Tony Paradise’s Poet ~
