Monday, January 15, 2024

By Shadow’s Light

 

Years in passing. Anguish, contradiction, frustration.  I couldn’t spend it all to find it: Satiation. 

The battle has been happiness, a fleeting curse, spoiling by absence.

I saw a savior in mechanics, so aloof from it all. 

Sudden attraction. Filled with purpose. Dedicated to a private island. 

To know life is subtraction, in finding perfection, chiseled softly.

Amazed by how it works: better to desire than to have.

To have leads to more desires.

To love & unlove: something intricate in place: beyond physics, trespassing unreality. 

Souls are tired. Souls are trying to slowdown. 

With each ache comes anguish. 

Sheer profanity: superior mundanity.

Running for it, catching it, mourning happiness. 

Those curtains unveiled, to know self, to feel it creeping in, to know what life is:

terrible satisfaction, multiple loses, hurting & returning.

Such is familiarity; such is pain.

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