Tuesday, July 11, 2023

No One Knows How To Stop

 

The life we want might be a life worthy of sacrifice. By a dying wolf, arising as a living lion, cursed beyond cure. To live each dusky sky, to feel each rush, hung about, filled with doubts.

Finished early on, won later in season, baffled about it.

Fireflies, cold memories, water baptism, filled with fury—life made caricature, enchantment, & lies.

Brighter lights, a field day of abuses, a petty apology.

To see it, to wait it out, many will see it.

To see a pattern, to churn literature, to beg softly in prayer.

Let a cup pass.

The life we want might be a life worthy of sacrifice.

Such an inrush, fierce naturality, playing ghost rays.

Finished early on, won later in season, baffled about it.

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...