Sanity's Recompense

A slightly dark poem I wrote while visiting a cemetery.

Haunting beauty
of the night
slinks into your mind
and captivates;

Causes insanity
as time spent pondering
turns to years lost of life,
think too much and everything's gone;

Corruption of the thoughts:
the onyx mist covers
all logic and reason
changing perception and ruining insight;

But if left unpondered
everything means nothing,
no matter how many years,
a no win scenario.