Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Awakened Portrait

 

Bled of solace, perfected in blood. Never knew was life; never fathomed God’s violin. So near to the grave. I was born to give up the ghost.

I adored a child, to praise an adult. 

Composed of visions, sold to repentance, captured by pure resistance. 

Erratic soul pressure, capricious pianos.

In needing you—I love you; in depth of gems, singing as it aches, to hurt in a precious moment. 

I’ve a weary outlook; I fathom all are dying, and trying so hard. 

I tear up to speak of you: your days are locks, requiring keys. 

Such an inner castle, so many mansions, to have won before birth: sunshine arts, spectacle shards, blatant indecision. 

The highway is lonely, clouds are darkened—to fever in a moment, to lose so much. 

Loving you is easy; healing you is by fate; to sing silence. 

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