Sunday, April 23, 2023

Souls at Opposition

 

What wills its power, final hour, a flower in toxicity? Eyes heavy, her heart depressed, her pain lethal — souls fall in love, holding clouds, nebulous replies. Oh Darkness, how have I loved you, breaking pavements, concrete abstracts, adoring the way you hurt me. What wills its power, slipping away, begging for mastery, a symbol that we love? The final flower, petals trampled, skies thundering, bolts of electricity, rooms filled with fog, pleading each other. I needed you, it was hectic pain, you left agony to suffer—you should’ve tried desperately. What wills its power, sheer devastation, hurting so long one becomes a beast? Wrongness + Error is never peaceable – to assign a role, to placate emotion, to try in making love, a need for guidance, a child in the adult. I loved your image, you appeared conscious, pure to a fault, filthy to sustain humanness. I can see you – what wills its power – seated in distinguished blues, mastery of lows, so lit at the funeral.   

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...