Mazes and phases

you wandered through blindly towards 

some new horizon 

Raise a broken glass 

to our shattered psyches 

and the lost causes 

They told me stories 

of the village's past with

wistful pride of place 

Super villains had

it right, maybe, in regard 

to ending the world 

An Aztec jade skull

I saw as a child still haunts;

beauty and horror 

Drink and sup and make 

merry before the sun comes up

to drag us all down 

Whether a trick of 

the eye or a mental lapse 

a stranger appears