Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Souls Don’t Fathom Self

 

It appears in rain, earthquakes, a sea-forest, those deep scars, such flowers in bloom.

In loving I was confused. I never fathomed love—not as it hurts to feel good. 

And one reads, and one stands still, and another casts a dream.

To knead an emotion, to need a feeling, so spatial, so befuddled. 

I was in admiration, looking at aesthetics, analyzing a curse. If to seize a second, 

listening to insignia, bled of decency, running into orbit. 

I was excited to have her. I was such an innocent soul. 

We made excellence. We viewed deaths.

I was left sea-gone; I soared with her.

We’ve become every type of forgiveness.    

I’d Save The Reader Years

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