Friday, February 9, 2024

Whirlwinds

 

 

I think to you to find peace. I venture to believe things are ideal.

But using your spirit is wrong.

I will brave the weather. 

At each turn—my entire life—dealing with something: I don’t enjoy self. 

Most loving life, the best of everything. 

Such contortion; such magic.

Love was beautiful. We never know tendencies.

(Just be happy!)

(I’ll be alright.)

And visiting skies, at horizons, at the red light. 

I thought to grab a cigar: to hell with that.

And looking at it, seldom into stars, knowing that too would curdle.

Surefire perdition, not just a situation, from father to father, like a tyrannical curse.

Father was a gift to it. I tread in his footsteps. 

I try to do it better. It doesn’t matter. 

The family dealing with it. They see the secret.

Majesty to the young: so much to deal with, just to exist. 

A few are aware: mystic destiny, aching the walking seas. 

Upside down, summonsing ancestors, chains, miseries, fury, fire, and flame.   

 

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