Mystery

written in college and published in the arts and literary magazine.

Sestina

Mystery

Up and down a winding path

A dark even scarier lake waits

Watch out there is a bear lurking

It leads to a deeper, creepy mystery

Who knows how it will evolve.

All I know is we are be lead by the stars

Coming around a turn, pitch black is all I see

But another curve is ahead on the path

That is all just about what it involves

A cabin could just be the one thing that surely waits

What is at the end could be a complete mystery

Will I even see that damn bear?

At last there have been actual sightings of a bear

Could it have been a mirage I was seeing

I guess it will always be a mystery

Having searched up and down the path

Let me see what I have awaited

But what does capturing a bear involve

I underestimated how much it involved

But eventually I had a captured bear

The crazy bear didn't know what it was waiting

I was going to kill it till it could not see

And I dragged it down the path

People wondered why I was so mysterious

In my head it wasn't even a mystery

How could they even accuse me of being involved?

Did they even see me walking down the path?

Was the animal really a bear?

You can never really believe what you see

What I found out was not what was waiting

Maybe that was ultimately waiting

Now that was going to be a mystery

In return it became so I could not see

Time to see what it involves

Instead all I had was this dead bear

It had now become an empty path

The path had become a place for waiting

Bears ghost had become quite a mystery

It involved nothing that I could see .