Are We Safer Now
Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.
Am I OK?
Healthy?
Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,
final answer."
Warm, wet exhaling,
"My moisture, too,
dying to reopen
yet another deep breath
resurrecting dawn."
Is my heart still beating
safe soul-full
rhythmed wealth?
Will I know no tomorrow
ever spaciously becomes
sufficiently efficient,
endless love proficient?
Do We breathe in borrowed time
together better
than sad Earth-matricide
mad pathology
mourning joyless bad
free-falling expensively
contractively
distinctively
extinctively apart?
After re-inhaling
all sacred yester nightmares,
am I still exhaling hope, fully?
Breathing inside thoughts
left to ask
while breathing outside feelings
right to answer
breath left enough to close
dualdark responsive
breath right enough to open
dawn's new dominating ask
Am I actually still-life
winter weathered horny?
For this therapeutic pleasure day
may give midweek life
inhaling purpose
Exhaling
love-thrive questing
deeply unitarian questions
and widely universal answers
discerning passionate joy-full purpose
with dispassionately empty mourning
small-death morning
post-resurrection withered meaning
Am I still life hopeful?
Despite persistent lost railings
respite-resistant failing
new dawn's resonant joy response
to resilient dualdark
ego/eco-mourning
organic orgasmic EarthTribe
climax dawning/dusking questions
Inhaling
"Gratitude for dusk's future
timeless night
reopening this borrowed dawn
of sacred MotherTree vocations."
Ex/Inhale ReConnecting
Re-membering
closed answer mournings
already passed
on MeWe co-empowered
dark joy EarthTree
quenching questing life.
Am I glad to listen
to Me inhaling dawn-mind questions
We exhaling dusk-body answers
past empty questing absence
of We responsive mourning?
Is my sun-crowned rooting tree
ready to die
to future co-requesting time?
Borrowed questions
refueling ComPassion Stories,
fueling new light
dark disempowering
each last lonely night
Mourning co-empathic pleasure
0-soul fully answered passion
open questions
inhaling summered
warm dawning thoughts
exhaling wintered
cold disempowered feelings
Osiris/Re-generating
not yet closed off
withering wintered co-response
to past hope springing dawn
EarthTribe summoned resuscitation.
Am I inhaling?
"Earth's weak-day embodied answers
to enlightened
respiraling
mind quests"
Dying to know
and grow
future EarthTribe's redawning
re-centering
open-hearted
full-rooted
empty-crowned
Autumn leaving
joy-full answering dawn
mourning sequestered dark
inside mind liberating questions
outside body conserving answers
resurrecting desecrated communion.
Am I feeling better
open questioning
mind/body regathering together?
When also falling
expiring Me/We
closed down answers
dawn/dusk dissociated
dying mornlessly apart.
Are We safe?
Waking to withering
wintering late dawn
gratitude
For sacred EarthTribe songs
and MotherTree dancing
full dawn-rooted questions
withering fall leaving answers
Inspiring and expiring
joyful mourning attitude
respiraling MotherTree wealth
expiraling Me/We dualdark health
respirating nature's midway
His/Her epic haling
questing
cresting light empowered
wintering weathered stealth.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2024
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