Friday, December 8, 2023

Dis-Weathered

 

I could say too much, lose excellence, disenchant a soul.

It’s been uneasy storming—longer roads, wider forests; trailing demons, escaping rescue, adverting moon spells. 

No one sees endurance.

Most see engulfment. 

By the time I got to her, I was concrete. 

By the days I met you, I was naïve.

Grave music; many names; I must relive you—

those years are sweeter 

matrimony.

I don’t know if it’s true—to love another more each day.

I’d try it.

What is romance: it’s dreams—a purpose inside an existential dilemma. 

Life is open or filled by walls. 

I watched a lady, becoming so grand, it had to be unreal, the hell in men that keep searching. 

No one ever freed us: no one warned of disclosure.

To be in one place, looking at invisible features, asking about some vision. 

You need to live. I must fathom. 

You’ve perished. It must be freedom. 

So near into unpaved skies, psychotic rivers, bled and remaining innocent.

To mend us, through breakage, fraught by an inner antenna—living by a second, threading chances, bilked by illusion.

I close—saying nothing, grieving in joys. 

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