Friday, January 26, 2024

It’s First Religious: Wings

 

 

We idolize immortality. We loathe the dying.

So much justification, drenched in irony. 

Either ashes or the casket. 

I notice it leans that way; no true understanding of why.

And Love feels you; and I feel you: What becomes its purpose? 

So fatally in amore: so tragic, headed back to Greece. 

gods became humans; goddesses became immortal.

“You shouldn’t say that.” 

You should be more aware.

Off to islands; religious creatures: it can’t be escaped: join and live; join and die.

It must be!

 

Please don’t anger it. It’s both. 

Rules chanted: rules shattered. Many trying to exist, more trying to live. 

Thrown into it: it was first for depression. It became life. A soul becomes a church: bells ringing, knells laughing, ghosts and demons. It never died out: it became thorough. 

In all of one’s knowing, please know what is being worshipped.

One might ask: “And what are you praising?”

One says, “God.” Another says: “We meet God through each other.” Another is angered by that.

“Why not let go?”

That would destroy the fabric.   

 The world would give up the Ghost. 

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