Sunday, February 11, 2024

Evident to Skies

 

 

… and it was a sage, an artist, a gift inside, while feeling gift-less.

Such contention, running spigots, dungeon skies.

The sun came out, it remains tenacious, despite what it sees.

I remember a small slingshot, a marble, at play. 

Such an unexamined life, prior to pure condition. To feel disgruntled. To sense contradiction.

We say it’s paradox. 

Ripples in a pond. Gentle geese. A bench. Seed. A sense

of ease: pure illusion. 

In search of static reality, a groping chase. 

To say, the stars belong to us!

Each axiom seems predisposed; each thought is a preposition;

each article was forged in anguish. 

… and it was a sage, an artist, a gift inside, while feeling gift-less. 

     

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