Thursday, August 15, 2019

Predetermined Responses


I walk silence, clenching its guts, while listening to encounters: it’s intricate this way, while afflicted such a way, where a person determines how we must respond: Pain talks that way; Pain delegates our behaviors; where someone too close proves a need for division.     I must confess something: It exhilarates through trauma, this feeling like one has existence: while something is normal, where confliction manifests breakthroughs, if one is balanced fire: this tricky element, by controlled chaos, where mother was both intolerant and unstable: while one is intentional, tugging at something vulnerable, advertising a need for strength: our lakes muddy, our aches bloody, our mates gutty: to watch closely, to sing with Rain, so claustrophobic, so forced and pushed into public dynamite: our green expectations, our childlike devil-may-cares, where reality has a special insistence: those kind souls, expecting Eternity, sharing, relaxing, and leading by pure example: paragons of effective suffering, soon mandated, even mental yogis: as sung an infant, looking at mother, but forced to nurture artificially: this dearer design, this dreary draft, our death-zone desires: traveling to loosen, gathered in excess, confused by indicative behaviors: our classical responses, where every action is premeasured, and anger is predetermined: so excused to perish, so invited to play soccer, while everyone is feeling guilty: our crush on a professor, our lusts for a passerby, but reasons to feel awkward: our using to feel used, our needs for dependence, while raising our children as independent, capable agents: so fierce at moments, reflecting over ice, stirring our last remnants: where normal fixes, abnormal digs deeper, prior to clearing those last frustrations: so sensed in this life, where keen eyes see something familiar, while one responds based in unrealities: our Fiona’s as Shameless, our minds as blameful, our hearts a slice of intelligence: distressed or disturbed, alienation or embrace, while grudges are sacred these days: to insist upon resistance, as shimmering like Pain, while something appears apropos: our interior normalities, our interior sentences, our foreign and slippery behavior: to inflict for meaning, where meaning is exhausted, while one struggles to justify a course of behaviors: such petals and Rain, such soil and sediments, or algae and plankton: at deeper Pain, this vessel of torn alibis, where a mother persists despite a Judge’s decision: as hating a person’s guts, while wrestling to outwit mirrors, where reality points to something quite individualistic: albeit, a villain, a man of too many mistakes: We don’t imagine packaged insanity, or forced inclusion: those ruby red sins, those heated forks, or this need to negotiate at every turn.

We talk silence, walking her screams, holding to adolescent perspectives: Our world is good; Our world is bad; Our world is a melding of Realities: where Time is sluggish, or Time is uneasy, or Time has slipped into oblivion: at recurrent thoughts, held for a decade running, searching for sunlight’s breath: heavy determination, requiring skill, diligence, and application: hearing sore-spots, listening to wailings, at emotional stitching: forced to combat humanity, while needing to adore humanity, where we sense variations: but Judge no man, in a society demanding judgments, even unto distinguishing our survival: at meadows whispering, at poetry listening, at mother an ambivalent creature: coerced to endure, rehearsed to survive, while watching as something melts away: our Kingdom Aches, our Kingdom Hearts, while we determine our language: to need the best in you, to receive a hunch in you, while a son is streaming and stressing and sore and sour: running into horizons, laughing near a sunflower, or treading miles through reflection: it seems evident, this telling cliché: We learn by paying attention, for Existence rarely speaks plainly: as curious devices, or systematic diggers, ruined, but aloft, where one designates heart as a caring, kind, and compassionate purpose.      

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