Sunday, August 13, 2023

Becoming Mystic

 

Amazingly dark, into her screams, aside his absence; seated near a sandcastle, eating dirt, looking at dearth.

 

They would if they could; to speak ethics, morals, we lived theology in God’s City. 

 

They would silence hurting, making it normal, where a soul internalized it, expecting nothing different. 

 

Amazingly dark, mentally surreal, epoch by its heritage; cull us from darkness, re-color color, so damned, so significant.

 

By power to find life. By too much familiarity to feel empty. By Love to rejoice.

 

He says his senses fooled him. I know that feeling.

 

If tamed inside, most delicate deaths, if untamed, most harsher deaths, deaths nonetheless. 

 

I’ve sat in many rooms, bulbs flickering, seated where souls placed me; to hear oneself, this was motive, to stop thinking.

 

To bring life to its brink, to understand fear, to know self might destroy its carcass; by irony, the thinking entity, to unthink what 

 

was thought. To rethink motivation, as realized in searching, to imagine what one was looking for;

 

an abstraction, made concrete inside, experience as fate, a subtle argument. 

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