Tuesday, January 24, 2023

To Watch A Soul

 

Moonshine, heart-spheres, deciding on living; to die in you, ribbons for departure, sudden into a spear—major minds, aloof realities, never good enough for you: so proud, such goodness, too abstract for concrete lies; panic presumed, love averted, organized for glory. Alas, too many loses, sung sweet wrongness, accustomed to neglect: ghetto seasons, richness in tenderness, given with a clause; fury of interior, begging to get things straight, remaining below have-nots.

Love was living, romancing by visual, sore vice, accredited with sinning—by arts, love, treasuries … adoring some part of you, displeased with core revenue, needing to walk away: make it even, headed into God’s Arms, a long ways to freedom.

Morose at a second, you demand happiness, so great in insistence; with begrudging, needing liberty from rumors, to have unknowingly wakened a dragon. Corse deliverance, trying not to offend, wondering what it means: favor with feelings, to be aware, to fret over well-being, distraught, frustrated, it isn’t living.

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...