Saturday, January 21, 2023

Crooked Lines Are Straight

 

Silence requires noise, in which, silence prevails, aggravates, becoming initiative.

 

I was born in darkness … stern, frightened, needing consolation – miles through caves, arriving at dungeons, searching ether, to heal parts of me.

 

Aesthetics made of dementia; art made of confusion; growing into creation; finding location, zeal, depression.

 

Beauty and bestiality … thin, fragile lines … unison, division, casual suits, fitted for no man.

 

Friendly neediness, unfriendly neediness, a soul desperate for freedom, closed in boxes, becoming more of its agitation; walking morgues, needing what one denies, edged, at a fringe, wrestling to accept help, guidance, as far as love demands.

 

Traditional laws, rules, debating contemporary dictums, postmodernism, deconstruction of values, long too disagreed with; mature examination, fighting assumption, faced by principles, naivety, paradox, contradiction.

 

Where to place color, woman, religion, science?

 

Is it a rule because it benefits to assert it?

 

Flesh in need of tolerance, social bed bugs, theological isolation, estranged from feelings, asked to endure, by waves into a different existence; preoccupied mainly, introverted naturally, keeping silence, with many needing liberty.

 

Mental agriculture, under-silence kilowatts, emotion as souvenir; puzzled along a leap—cashew skinned, middle roads, asking what one can of virtue.

 

Walking a greater pendulum, challenged by science, moving into it, as opposed to raw resistance.

 

Tiptoeing a spectrum, many more extremes, sensing asymmetry in its balance.      

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...