Saturday, November 25, 2023

If I Were a Friend II

 

Is it true, is it false: a picturesque image upon a star?

Friends die in each other, loving thoughts—angered over possibility.

I was fishing inside; it must be awareness:

sudden into an uplift.

The oceans seem to waft to shore;

seagulls witness passion, 

something immortal is knitted,

souls feel immature again. 

I try to drag it out of blueness;

I tug at it from turquoise glimpses;

you keep with ignoring us.

Such contradiction in a glance.

Maybe I see hopes, dreams, at life too long.

Seafaring wishes, girded by soothsaying;

so exposed, in a lonely crowd, such a dying trope. 

We have a time trying—in speaking, we tread carefully. 

I sense physics; I hear meta.

Phrenic music: needing the needs of needing. 

So futuristic in thoughts, such dear exploration, if to long for us with desperation: to gather pieces, to unknot fragments, to swear upon a paradox.

I garner upon cosmos—to assert knowingness, to imagine love;

as a dear liar: to need it with restrictions, to proffer an idea, to believe in us an ideal; as if … tsunami passion … baptism tears … furious, unyielding redemption ….   

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