Pompeii of the Mind

A Summer Poem

Pompeii of the Mind

By Maxwell Vagus

Distant
Eruption –

Red lightning
Cloaked

Swirling black

Reaches
Across

All Time
and
Space –

And we
Struggle

The churning
Cerulean
Waters
Below –

But

Can we
Climb
High enough

To
Escape

Ourselves

In this
Vastness –

A well
Deeper

Than

Dreams