Friday, June 2, 2023

Finished Edifice

 

Like tragedy he came into existence. Mother was proud, father needed a last name. [it was never love, most lust and control and fever].     Love is at it, making moves, so trained at it, holiness laced with jewels.     And how often has one strayed; And how much closure do we need?     Mind war. Clock wars. Battling to get freedoms.     Richer?

     Have-nots are exploited. We feel much pain, it becomes art.     And Love reads, I would like a debate with Love—a good one, where everything is on a table.     People escape a challenge because they never conceded it exists.     Like tragedy he came into existence—cocaine was lethal.     It’s been liquor since a child tasted it.     Mother was a sinner, made part in holiness, ironic, a casualty, bleeding her first born: chunks to rugs, toilet overflowing, Granny screaming, “I hope she dies.”     Mother never forgot.     A tale for some, a reality for others, or something in between, or, nonchalance, indifference, multiplied by damages: coals aflame, hearts thrashing, Love too insidious, too casual, too much to listen to actions.     In honesty. Some of us have a time with winning, it’s difficult, it seems we seem too trained. Try to follow. It’s not bad to know intricacies, as others discover knowhow, others become nervous, it seems so easy. They weren’t there to see an ocean dying, a myriad failures, the pain that made home. Many never watch a building being built, they just marvel over a finished edifice.       

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