Sunday, January 8, 2023

Speechless

 

If those moments were sacred, how have they died, if the focus is immortality? I sense blockage. I can’t speak it. A dream raffles an instinct. I can’t speak it. It seems obsolete, as it weakens its presence. I must speak it—those islands must welcome us. It becomes more difficult to reach the sacred space—as deeper in us, a place fraught by unkindness. Feelings and emotions … visions and fantasies … imposition and naturality.

 

Bolted to science, voltage through religion, spirit motion and dreams; to know esoteria—by a plausible frame, wrists given to belief; a vacuum inside, skies screaming, anxiety in a stranger; her days meant for anguish, her aches plural, I can’t fully speak it.

 

I find self a state of being, dear intensity, still naïve, simple at moments, and critical.

 

When we met, she was still young, a semester after marriage, she was apprehensive to speak. I saw it, what I can’t speak, its elusive, built-in illusion, for though she cries, her laughter is infectious. A soul running to itself, finding solace, able to believe in itself.

 

I couldn’t walk further away, it’s similar the same, to witness a knew but similar set of characteristics. Emotion: pulling, yanking, pushing, and tugging, even to repulse at times.

           

I can’t talk it. It dwells in sin. Plus, it’s holy.

            A strange, froward design.

            I can’t speak it anymore.   

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