A Fog of Wishes

This one is gentler
Softer and indistinct
Suddener than reality
And more of it, I think.
Faces and shapes emerge
Out of a milky haze,
Beautiful and frightening
In an arcane, spectral way.

In this occult ether
Time and space are neither
Certain nor in their place,
And I can retrace
My missteps of the past
And perhaps even erase
Certain painful mistakes.

A portal opens in the fog
A doorway to revisit
A long lost cause,
But something gives me pause—

Is it worth it after all
To change my Fate
For a clean slate?
And who knows
What else might change…

I might lose you in the end
When you’ve accepted
Who I am.

The mist folds in upon itself
And the portal dissolves
Into a wall of fog.

So much for a foggy vision
Ending in indecision:
Nothing can erase
What once has been,
Seeking perfection is futile…
A vainglorious dream
Of cosmic glitches

And nothing is worse
Than being lost
In a fog of wishes.