Monday, April 24, 2023

The Human Ship

 

You remind me of Selah, of her eyes, so distinguished, hating to be called holy. That’s how I knew, pondering psychiatry, what becomes of souls. To become features, as they say, to turn on the personality: many traits, several characters, people fall for each one. I imagine knowing so much that a person is never appeased. I, too, imagine such a connection that no one can replace it.

I’m not selling you some dream. I’m not asking for a hand in marriage. What I’ve figured out, concerning humans, let’s me know probability.

It wasn’t your place. We’ve nothing, no foundation, and esoteria is too vague to extend as evidence: un-chasable, notwithstanding, an image, an impression, something in clouds, made opaque, made convincing.

You remind me of Selah, of her style, her persona, her gifts and woes. I suppose at some level all souls suffer together.

With memories only. I wish well the warriors at seas—oceanic sunrise, sailing the human ship.   

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...