Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Finding Poetry

 

getting closer, made difficult, devoid of easiness, in spite of physicality: the agony of bliss, beauty as it soars, climactic exercises.

hold your heart out, remove the spear, pass it to a promising savior.

could you love my heart, structured around a fiat, struggling in an artery?

some fugue, some skyward anxiety, so silent, perceptive, an angel’s demon.

getting closer, for what reason, if not to give beyond measure; if to receive love, if to touch earth, would not life seem apparent?

getting relaxed, holding hands, reciting similes; pure truth, gothic angelity, another feeling unbearable; made sweetness, so tender, thrown away, no greater closeness.  

to locate science, to change neurons, to become carnal—if spirit would live, if kindness might surge, so little evidence in a gesture—made an erupting kiss.

so dear to a heart, strings lacing skies, language so unclear: a baboon in a cage, a chimpanzee up high, a body fighting against longevity; take pain, eat misery, love may be fire.

getting closer, breaking steel glass, some oxymoron, fretting the storm, holding a heart, a spear ripping out chunks.

 rezipped in anguish, foaming over silence, it hurts so badly, a soul has found poetry.

The Sentiment

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