Monday, September 5, 2022

Wanting. Waning. Electric.

 

She comes from an era.

Spirits dominated.

Souls learned meanings.

Esoteria was made reachable.

She sought the practice.      

 

Most will live in memories; many will shun them; and many more are trying to forget them. Some hallucinations feel like freedom; others taste like failing, falling, untamed; and accepting hemlock takes courage,—some might say otherwise. In time, sour sweetness loses its sweetness, and remains sour.

Many of us bonded over medicines: life, happenstance, suffering, art. The symphony is medicinal, made of topaz, flowing into graces, made of instruments and lungs.

By the jaws of alienation, something is located; reconstructed for survival.

In the excess—it has become different: I wonder about the motive—Does it change?

            Most are addicted to the work of their hands.

            Most celebrate a break through; others mourn the up-and-coming events.

By the winds of cheetahs—surging through deserts, seeming free in their surroundings; the freedom of nature, absent of repercussion, facing repercussion. Many memory mirrors; many perceptions watching; many strongly held dispositions.

 

            Spirit careens into sadness.

            Motion is found in stillness.

            Souls are teeming with insistence.   

Strumming a Harp

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