Firmer Ground of Being

Challenges to the internal illusions
Carefully mastered to shelter the emerging soul.
Authentic, centered confidence stages a daring coup
Only to reel at the unsubstantiated yet irrefutable accusation
Of being but the next illusion.
Disenfranchised from being
By my own brokenness.
Airtight circle of words
Floating isolated over the jagged terrain of my next choice.

That they betray in the courts of conformity
Makes them neither friend nor foe.
Elusive voices who both teach and deceive.
I make my peace with the damning uncertainties
And give myself to those who will ultimately destroy me.
Firmer ground of being.
Though I die,
More truly have I lived.