Captian's Log There is a Prison 1 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 “There is a prison,” I said. “Is it just?” he asked. “And he waits in darkness.” “But is it just?” “Long ago, I commended him to the guard.” “If he…
Captian's Log Shadowed Fetters 29 May 202425 May 2024 Bound in shadowed fetters and hurtling through a starless darkness, a tossing, turning storm without light, I wonder how, amid all the chaos, nothing good ever just happens. You would…
Captian's Log The Pen Falls 23 Aug 202312 Aug 2023 And the pen falls from my hand The paper's signed and now I stand I wonder if I'll live again if I'll regret, rejoin the mass of men or if…
Captian's Log Reflections of the Mind Pt. II 14 May 202313 May 2023 I see my reflection, faint, in the clear glass, my face like a ghost, the eyes black holes. Beyond, he sits. His chair is bolted to the floor; the chains,…
Captian's Log The Chains of Time 2 Mar 2023 "I have drunk the ancient blood of kings, the sons of pagan gods. I have outlasted empires that man has now forgotten. I once walked upon lands that the sea…
Captian's Log A Free Man 24 Jan 202323 Jan 2023 How heavy were the chains which bound me, which crushed my soul, and yet how terrible, how heart shattering, was the dreadful clattering clank when the manacles were cut off,…
Captian's Log Who Bound the Giant? 12 May 2022 The chains rattled as the giant shifted in the darkness. We could hear his breath like a howling storm. He's sleeping, I thought. In the time it takes him to…
Captian's Log Short Poem: In the Darkness are Chains 30 Mar 201930 Mar 2019 In the darkness are chains, and in the shadows bondage. Sweetness and light are freedom; bitterness and death enslave. In this pit I cannot hope. We clasp our chains tenderly;…