Thursday, December 8, 2022

When It Was Human Nature

 

Say it hurts, die a smidgen, never tell me its over. The fire of the planet, swishing through freeways, a man cursed, livid in a surprise, on slow roast. In earnest to have flight, into terrors, to sit, enduring the critical. Some fool in her eyes, if to imagine truths, so silent the debt—the depth, so uncured, so distant, trying harder to exist; all I need, was all that was given, some dream in a ribbon, so alienated, estranged from others, looking anti-normality, the odd creature, the fury of the battle, a war to prove him wrong.

 

As it hit, metallic fireworks, to ignore his brains; so silent excellence, befalling his crown, threshed, sacrificed, given to language. A soul and his dreams—a woman and her ideals, an iconoclast and his reasoning.  

 

It never mattered, right or wrong, she would pursue—a fount in a cave, palatial sunrise, an epiphany, or damnation.    

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...