No Gold

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No Gold

Through the city of forests
Across their unbridged waters
Under the soak of cold rains
And the singe of sunned airs
Through the chirp of jungle birds
Beneath the dews of dawn and
The sunset of forgotten evenings
I have paddled on lost grasses
My tired legs have traipsed
Marshes and trailed rivers
I have clambered mountains
In lands unknown and hopped
In airs of indifferent climes
I have dined with aliens and
Seen folly and excess wisdom

In my infantile quest
To follow the rainbow
I ended here at her feet; no pot
Alas no gold, jaded and weary
I follow my steps rearwards
To the roots I left in haste
Humbled, fading; my ink, dried
The cracked tablets of my heart
Wet yet from the memoirs
Her words painted on me
Tonight, I am coming home
Back to the adore of my ma
To the cuddle of her bosom
And the caress of her pap
On my once youthful throat.

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