Shy Muse

I finally see her

my tiny muse

she is shy

doesn't want to be captured

or made any less transient

she seems to beck and call towards sacrifice

'let all that you are out into the world while time eats you away'

oh trickster spirit i glanced you for a moment, 

set off to undermine my comfort and sanity

in the hopes that I climb up

the ladder is unknown to me

and yet i sense its heights in the back of my mind

you flutter beneath my sight

pulling levers and plotting a course

to the unknown shores of my becoming