Thursday, August 11, 2016

Wrestling With Flames


I can’t fathom pain, aside from its origins, to wonder why it lingers; for joy comes and goes, to appear as private, moving through psychic waves; but pain forms a legacy, this lifetime war, resistant to fleeing. I felt a thump, pushing towards his brain, as the heart communicates wisdom; this weathered piano, or this organ of souls, fevered at its entrance; where exits are cycles, running through a vestibule, to roar as we chase. I know not the rain, that has flooded the city, as beavers become frantic; and I know more the chase, this vest of balance, as a mirror unseen; to know for culture, the value of turmoil, this art linking ethnicities. Years have spoken—of resilient pains, a group of souls seeking psychiatry; or more the tools, that invade our lands—of this inner dichotomy; that want for yes, where a breakthrough occurs, as to return to frantic moments. We often forgive, and still have to suffer, while the culprit rests in peace. It’s quite unfair, as to forgive for self, while another reigns as unaccountable. They shift and surf, and skate and dream, waiting for Conscience to show up; where life is them, while rain is us, where they refuse to be concerned. I know not the magic, this man of Conscience, coming from a bleak past; and I know not the thrill, of forking brains, as to repeat a riddled path: the fiery hells, the barren valleys, the meadows colored in coals; where grass is bleeding, while plums are plump with worms, as to symbolize the dying of souls: this casual affair, as none were mindful, as to trust a facial response; this fool of dreams, buried in confusion, wrestling with flames.    

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