Monday, July 31, 2023

Sky Chains

It never becomes mastery, importance, dripping anguish, celebrating happiness.

Faucet pain, sensing its divinity, grace & rain. 

Smoldering weather, decomposition spirits, I wonder about father.

I was with epiphany, vacillating, velvet skies—as if passion is affliction. 

I prayed as a child; I sweated by pores; I bled my life.

I fathom by needs, affirmative deserts, when desperate, we take action. 

It never seems enough, so hungry, so rapacious, the sin is greed. 

With deep patience, benthic intolerance, a soul is a contradiction; 

Awesome rain, dearly alive, barely situated—

we spoke with demons—we strained angels, we disrespected existence.

In God’s Country, we can’t see it clearly, we feel neat, tucked in, disputing facts. 

I never felt mastery, so sullen, so tacit, filled with ghetto anger. 

Spigot abuse, a precious seed, to become a monster; most important are tenets, never found it at home, in seeking—he was deceived, in needing warmth—he was mis-lead … the end didn’t justify tragedy.

 

By afflatus, dear discernment, so numen it aches—

if knowing was enough, if one had warned, I still would’ve moved forward. 

Such vivacity—

so near its cave, capitalizing sorrows, hunting bigger truths; 

so much to adore, born with flaws, filled with negotiation.

Original means iconoclastic; similar means exhausted; 

by a benighted wind, a blackdamp, feeding pigeons at the pond.  

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...