Friday, December 15, 2023

Green Vines

 

A bad ass trophy. We keep dying atrophy. I read clarity, a play on verbs.

Love made a path for us, desperate pains, laughing with celebration. 

Spinning corners, popping life, asking for one last meeting. 

So looney, like a cartoon, or a damn caricature. 

Cultures suffer, bent on history, let the acrylic blaze. 

Mail it to her. Tell her it aches. 

No matter how attuned I get, I’ll never fathom the disconnection. 

All these years reading it, absorbing it, so metaphysic, I touched a dream. 

I have noting left. I would I suppose. To imagine a grand loss. 

I heard a ruler, semi-tyranny, last to stand for self. 

I bounced early. I met Coppola. I was part innocent. 

Talking. Reminding to blink. I never asked for others. 

Can we please free freedom? 

If we chanced a miracle, bled of souls, running into deserts, reliving God’s legacy; if it hurts—it might be suffering, such radical silence. 

I was born. I kept listening. Surprised. A life of wisdom, ultimately, it’s death. 

I would lie. But you know when it’s bull crap. 

And truth hurts. 

I no longer crave. I forfeited desire. Gave her back to atrophy. 

God bless the insatiable!

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