Clifford K. Watkins, Jr.

 
Clifford K. Watkins, Jr., is a thirty-one-year old writer/lyricist  
originally from High Point, North Carolina. He's been published by Prism Quarterly, Wild  
Child,Oracular Tree, Seeker Magazine, Ygdrasil, and Underground Window. He 
currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida.

 

To Venture Alone

to venture alone
a single stone hurled into winds of anguish
I can't surrender
I'm a void with nothing to relinquish
I'm a joke
a trivial game
I could be anything
taking the lord's name in vain
a muffled scream
a mad dose of  reality
mere fragments of a dream
I'm alive
I'm dead
the universe  swirls in a severed head
I'm safety
I'm danger
I'm your friend
I'm  the seedy stranger that sows the seed
the shard
and only  remainder