Sunday, September 1, 2024

Take It Easy

 

I can’t be hopeless. To tingle at a voice. Wondering of love shared. Radicalized. Heaving heavily. Such excruciating joys, daring not to call pain happiness. The author veers off, poking at love’s veneer. Told to behave; sheer letters, alphabetical passions—to follow ordination. Love requires itself, feeding on sky hopes, determined to flights. I enter a zone, climb out of a vortex, tender showers, cursed, swooshing through freedoms. Amazed by emotions, still acting asinine. Too many concerned, let love make its privacy. I fantasize; descending clouds—love withstands itself. Creative rulings; through uncertainty; knowing ideals are part reachable, part a trap—makes for partial allegiance, so wrapped in what we do. Such a paradoxical soul; such uncouth rulings. Trying to steer self; stirred—as it were: knowing behavior, knowing wilder weather, catching vibes. To take to motion, sheer quintessence, arguing back and forth. Those few months—composed of history, containing existence, excitement, deep rooted laughter. When I approach—talking smack, to return banter, catching an attitude. Such devotionals; so lethargic at moments, too vulnerable to leave Rome—reaching, demanding, as if we forgot a lasting ache. To cherish a lucky feeling, so much dying, to get it back is like trekking hells; to touch with meaning, to agonize over something inconsequential, to pull up aside imagination.  

In Exchange for Enlightenment

  We need extraordinary verses.  Trying to keep up with it. Gelid miles,  cogent walls. A fever at times, said  distant at moments. So much ...