Fall. Here was I born. It rained, but no one was looking
They only saw mist and falling leaves. An old mendicant
With elevens on his neck muttered rambles to a lost dog:
Predictions for scraps, but even pennies can translate to food,
Whispers can become truth, just listen…madness taken for
Granted is a curse, unlooked for becomes a benediction:
Salvation from mediocre, escape from mundane. yesterday
He went missing, but left a written note which said forget
Tomorrow, it’s the end. I can see my breath, its changing
Into the nothingness depth of
Winter. I try to plough my way through
waist deep snow. No avail. The bitterness
inside spreads and approaches the rushes;
urges of declination to accept the cold. feelings
reach to bold outline of trees against stark
skyline. vivid imagination adds colours, then
bright whiteness, then black. In blind faith
know numbness, abduct god and stuff it into
a small soul. called it animation and watch it dance.
be content in experiencing pleasant warmth and the
lack of fear. Forge from that a new
Spring. Out of the ashes I rise and find a world destroyed.
I imitate it as best I can in order to, out of chaos, call it civil.
Or wrestle morality until I can define everything, make it
Mimic myself. Internal energy cannot be contained, I hurt
For avidity, sexual euphoria of creation from crematoria
To manifestation. Dark skin separates, awaits seed’s bloom;
Sun looks-lunar rests. warm soil, soul grow, transform,
Then survive. lush thickets to consume/ innocence misused
Ensues the pursuit of pleasure without consequence. Ethics
Relative to tradition handed down mouth to mouth, a legend passed
>From ancient to elder to father to son, then repeated until ice covers
World like expensive dresses…prices…prices….payment for vices
consciousness that waits until
Summer. I sit overlooking troubled ocean.
Breezes remind me of the shore where breakers
Beat sound against sand and part land as if
partitioners of stolen loot. Long ago I was the water
And within me lay little forms of life never recognized
I wept for them as they disappeared, gone to mineral
Or meal...understanding made me take this mechanical shape
and crawl onto the earth, traverse its ways, become wind…one
thought made me empyrean…I was as the heavens… knew
I sadness then, full in knowledge that there would be no one
left to mourn my death...for I would out live them all.
frozen inside,cold as ice
just a memory in the past
just a shadow in the future
just me without you
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