Monday, February 20, 2017
Crossing Races
We see for differences, by nature this curse, adrift so far apart; to
lust for color, or to lust for Europe, at two those pores; to utter a epithet,
or feel detached, warring in Mississippi: that inner courage; that African
high; those rotten eggs. It should be love, as imbued with kindness, as tears
those ideals; to see a human, instead of cultures, where art becomes tragic;
this ink by blood, this bone by grizzle, that tare leaking into passions; as so
naïve, where ignorance rules, that capital of madness. We wrecked pains; spoke
as friends; to die as warriors: that tender touch; those hips and thighs; that
kiss near ears; while hell grew, this distant closeness, to die those screams.
I thought Pakistan, this place of marriage, as more devastation—to bleed
diamonds, this sky-mine, a field of land-souls; as crying harshly, a chest
heaving, screaming, He’s a heathen; where
pictures ruined—this perfect image, her eyes buzzing; this life of sin,
grinning embarrassments, as living in closets: that reputation; that inner
deacon; those bloody lines; as courted to live, a soul broken, this man a child
inside—to rupture a season, on mere a gesture, as reminded of cultures; that
outer cure, this place to blame, this disguised demon. I heard from self,
sitting sickly, our coverage that sinless family; to call for dung, to remind
of love, this painful disjunct. It could be us, abused by happiness, or more this
life—that shattered home, those parts to sea, that wind to shift; as cold and
ruined, while dead and breathing, rubbing a palm as sorrowed. I saw emotions,
unable to die, at sudden that burst of rivers; this brook of catharses, that
valley of poisons, those hours at drifting; to remember cultures, as knowing
truths—that familiar feeling; to die that name, to see as vivid, those colors
wrapped in foreign arms; where time bleeds, to court souls, lost at inner
meadows: that Romanian rite; those Jewish tenants; that word by grace this
feature; to see Forever, with wealth
to live, as returning gone. I blink to
ponder, gazing at arrows, flushed those rifting words; for it should be love,
if so to die, as opposed to ruins; where neither suffers—but a second in time,
as seeking closer.
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