Thursday, February 15, 2024

In The Absence of It

 

 

Nothing is totality; feeling utter grayness; it’s not her.

Listening to Irene, save for inner thoughts; aching an ultimate island, sensing a third dimension. 

And color keeps morphing, such surreal dynasties, in spite of intestinal thoughts. 

Upheaval climbing; deeper beliefs. 

It’s hard when easy, difficult peaks. 

Seized by naivety. Searching for completion. Damned by estrangement. 

What I love will flee away. What I desire isn’t human. 

In being human, the desire is beyond our capacity.

And all are concerned with freedom—its magnitude, breadth, width, its uneasiness, its un-reaching promise. 

Depriving its arts, filled with fury, disputed as heresy.

I’ve a figment of images, watching an unspoken science, feeling tension as it rises.

No one said I’ve completion, fueled by ideals. 

No one said it wasn’t debatable. 

I never said these things. 

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...