Friday, November 10, 2023

Standing Aloof

 

 

With deficit comes compensation. 

A man will assert his genius.

A woman will assert her determination.

There was a soul, she was brilliant, many wouldn’t endorse her—pain made her shoulders heavy.

She became renowned; she carried the naysayers, albeit with excellence, she was compounded by forces. 

Men never fathom, too subdued by our madness, humans are consumed … to measure life becomes difficult.

To need what we can’t provide, it kills a soul.

Alike to a child, a teenager, those many wilts, unable to clear a path. 

I remember this melody, said nocturne, celestial undertones, art at its deepness, somewhat penchant—a clasps over a palm, delicate chasms. 

I was loving an axiom, with hope in projection, to believe in you stood the best of me; ignoring factors, charmed I’d suppose, nay, allergic to perfection; a man and his fishing pole, a woman and her seduction, or better, pain and its mind-holds. I stray from you, compelled to analyze us, at times heavy enough to see a shadow, a glimmer.

And I know one is going through winds, tugged to and fro, looking at ink, palming pads, trying not to snap; nonetheless, a moment changes life, such ambition, several publications.

I remember a woman asserting herself, because she had to; or using satire, because she could.

PS.

    The strength to withstand the winds; a spell as it effects/affects some creature. A sudden moment filled with absolute certainty, so wro...