Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Dry As a Mirror

 

Be it fantasy the most beautiful, as if gorgeous means innocence. Bodies fraught by art, ink dripping sanity, maybe a manic tattoo; laughing at me, trying harder, if more acceptance—the Great Myth.

Each hour emotion dries.

Discontent is an Intelligence.

Photos on high. Faced by immediacy. Forced to make a lasting decision.

            By pain to enhance, fever and elegance, fervor and ingredients. If to refocus, upon a petal, to see beauty, independent of the suffering—not because of the suffering.

            Wanting is temporary. Needing is eternal. I want to need her.

            One plays piano, strikes heaven on the violin, becomes romance on the cello; such cursed souls, frantic over fantasy, as if deficit means trustworthy.

            So much outstanding beauty, ignoring variety, pledged to exist; a cured soul is an absent soul, most realize cures are temporary—else, living has halted.

            Needing spirit, to delve into spirit, asking for what never satisfies.

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