Fundamental Offering

Some gifts are not worth accepting.

Holiday gift, brightly wrapped,
unsolicited front porch offering.
The card reads:
  Be careful what you wish for...

...glints of curiosity unease mind’s eye,
surge of anguish seeking fulfillment
wishing, somehow, knowing
was divine right, denying what stirs
in tantalizing enigma
wanting all beneath bright dome of Heaven,
lifted like thriving sea creatures
from pressurized darkness,
treading eggshells
as per message gnawing
of Hallmark unsigned
(veiled threat or sage advice?)
Wayward ships mocking ambition’s want
on waters perpetuated
by need to know--
quiet serenity pinned to sky
this now wondering
this now wandering
of sureness summarily ushered off
to ethereal cloud-castles--

And so who are you
to blend within secretive winds
this taunt of offering with warning?
And who am I, defined by reason
resonating as timeless virtue,
one to allow such goading?

30 Lines
Writer’s Cramp
12-19-14