Definitive Delicacy

Definitive shadows of the trees becoming ever pale

as the world merges into a grey gloom

with juxtaposition losing it’s definitive detail

and the flowers have lost their will to bloom.

Will a new definitive source of contrasting light prevail?

For the clouds conceal beauty and consume

all once darkly definitive as if a colourless veil

with a thickness ominous to entomb.

This ship will sail out to sea with a delicacy tonight

for this voyage would be in vain without

the navigator’s essential delicacy of guiding light

which removes all of the storm’s prior doubt.

The pen scratches the paper with delicacy as I write

discerningly, not knowing what about

yet reserving the delicacy to be painfully right

but the ink, like all else in life, fades out.