Friday, December 22, 2023

The Orientation

 

Cultural guidance. Cultural practices. Cultural secrets. 

In the decoding, we lose mystery, rather, the mystery becomes human. 

I was a listless, (at points), child. 

To admire what’s not guiding spirit—with spirit fed, unlocked, city deserts.

Trying to paint pneuma, unknowingly. 

Cleansed at seconds, deeper awareness, preparing for the training grounds. 

Something chemic chasing; 

like eons chasing, interior/exterior privacies. 

And to notice something: souls are weary of guidance. 

On a sunless day, wrestling inside, hope becomes amore. 

To fight against inertia: Cultural practices.

Orientated by Scripture: debating covenants—measured by reality, sudden into a greeting. 

It seems heavy: to an increase in knowledge—is an increase in pains. 

Or lit by fervor, bathing in sunshine, a mixture of both. 

(The voyage mentors gave us.) 

From crumbs to half a loaf: to subsist through silence, in living through thoughts.

By an Anchor, inclusive of Laws, unceasing orison.

At edges, cloven in twain, so much to glean, so unsteady a glint of light—

rain pouring in, impoverished they assert, or rich in spirit—

others are sensing humility, as its power,

something is taking place, on a good day.  

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