Sharing another poem from Noesis.

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