Friday, March 31, 2023

Feathers Seem Rainy

 

Turn into vision-light. Ache with fever.

Become pure darkness. The ghost bleeding,

oils leaking, the majesty of one

he couldn’t persuade. I was dead,

listening to Gospels, trying to

become a good person. I met an

image, I heard a sound, I realized

most are better than me. Elements.

Humility. Soft sung serenades. I

was born again. Given to the times. To

feel good, to relax on a summer day,

void of this, angered with this, not too much

sense to make of this. Eyes swell. Hearts wax with

fire. A soul becomes saddened by that. Sol

liaison inside. A person inside.

Not many are aware of the worship

inside. I was naïve. I met a

feeling. She arrived in an omen. The emotion of favor—sought to amend, hoping I would possess this cure: too much understanding! Indeed, self-aggrandizing: nay, just speaking a given truth, with many in true rain. I have a seed. To hear those wires—to demand of the universe, to know for elixir, cauldron and faces; four steps behind, one step towards dying, to know, as a fact, we were born headed in one direction, despite anger, despite love, despite children. Too negative. Not so! the good of the human—the dream of the beauty, the feeling of being alive—the rush of the winds, too many would have lived more! Can’t call it quits. All of it wrestles out. Humans need much more than what can be given. The poor indebted. The fame of the farmhand. And Love is a mystic!  

 

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