Paladin
I have met darkness in a
Life burdened by prevailing
Intrudes of accumulating
Doubts that precipitate
Pretentious eternities and
Construct tautological
Patterns too betraying
For fearful minds complicit
To my failing humanity
Shunned as though I
Were a drought-parched
Willow with no tenable
Destiny while judged to
Be incapable of preserving
My own existence, but
I am the paladin they could
Not see and my inner tempest
Shall not surrender me