"Soul's Doldrums"

Jason Cole Magnon

"Soul's Doldrums"

Happiness is always resting in the waters deep 
Beneath the waves quaking in the wake of Time.1 
Across the Wandering Rocks2 of duality3, 
Through the Symplegades4 of right and wrong...

Absent the whirlpool of morality
My soul drops into doldrums5 of still reprieve 
Where,
From a fulcrum at
The center of
The Middle Way6,
I wait...
Between the Scylla of desire, and 
           The Charybdis of fear.7

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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna - Novelty_theory_and_Timewave_Zero 2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planctae
3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism
4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplegades

5 “Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way
7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis
Works alluded to:
–Odysseus by Homer
–The Argonautica of Apollonius: Jason and The Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes –"The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
–Ulysses by James Joyce (Chapter 11: The Wandering Rocks)
–Buddhist and Eastern Mythology 
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*Pardon the annotation.... I knew you'd figure out the allusions in here, and you're invited to interpret them however you wish, but I thought it might be nice to provide some background and foundation to (hopefully) enhance it's pleasures. Thanks!