Saturday, May 6, 2023

Handkerchief

 

Most addicted to utopia,

passion of dice, gothic, made wicked,

nonchalance. Banshee interior,

darkness of prose, a little unsteady,

nervous, peering back at mirrors

—until it shifts. Most terrified, knowing

fey, unharnessed, leaping, thrusting a

linchpin. Mental revelation, into

spiritual portals, a soul has unveiled

a name. Seated upon cotton, a

hassock, palming a graven image, in

soul, spirit, dynasties have suffered.

Bathed in waters, made holy, unable

to feel it as it falls. Piercing

invisibility, filled with

intrusion, adoring, if possible,

some light in one made miserable—by

fire of suffering, the glory in

redemption, a cycle unending

—walking through hemispheres. Overshadowed.

Put back together. Reframed—

fiending for Love. Ignored. Walking away.

To hear it in spirit, clawing at walls,

groping at invisibility.

Sheer terrible. Meer tragic. Unreal

reality.

Unable to drop a tear. It’s become

maddening.

To have a piece of divinity,

knowing skies are fuller, to drift,

tugged, caressing a handkerchief.  

Strumming a Harp

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