Friday, December 30, 2022

Thy Neighbor

 

I hope it fills a space; and dancing is forbidden. Mystery lingers. I was super low, hands to invisibility, molding plateaus. Tell me it has an end. Tell me it gives you life. Tell me my rights don’t matter. Justify reality, then say you stand for sameness—of heritage, of treatment, of graces and honor. Tell me it gives you life, and you refuse to walk away.     Days were mundane. The next will charm you. Life is meant to entertain you.     I run a risk. I remember soul, elegance, confusion, and paining art; never darker, dull light, radiance in skies—travel and legacy, Judah and Levy.     I need to say it matters less in passing, whereof, I’d be fibbing. I need to say I understand on some level, whereof, this is superficial.     Tell me it matters—those dreams, tell me they culminate—into sanity, miracle, and vice, with meaning mesmerized and dancing; so bad for essence, so wicked when angry, I imagine many duplexes.        

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