As I Arise
As I arise and fresh aspire
to seek that which, in men, inspire,
with each new light, of each new day,
I still by will and night's display,
again, have lost my way.
I claim that all is lost within
infinity's infinity;
a vacant space of cold uncertainty.
For were I not this man I see,
reflected, in the dimness of the glass
and had the features of a creature I
might choose; a bear, a snail, a peacock's tail,
or mighty tiger's jungle muse,
then surely I would take the form
of one - and from the human run -
away from daily reasoned doubt
which shares man's vain and selfish shelf,
and so become engaged within my preternatural self.
The morning light still reaches not the black
and vast eternal void: where man is cast
at last, in vain, to claim by reason's bane,
a purpose stated, never named,
dissected from such flimsy source
as Freud or Joyce or God, of course!
If I as creature be too dumb
and distant from great wisdom's thumb,
then creature yes, I choose to be,
rejecting realms where reason dwells;
as reason fails, not partially,
while posing most suspiciously,
but totally becomes consumed
as fuel that feeds the furtive needs
of man's malignant vanity.
It serves confusion's mischief muse,
imbued as food and fodder for the fuse
that shines no truth upon the night,
nor does it bring a guiding light
to man - brother to the creatures given
treasured gifts of insight rare. Deflecting
guile's deceit reveals the mind of man's profound conceit,
in things that sing of new philosophy;
and brings devolving degradation to the clueless mind of man.
Conversion of dogmatic divinations
made by few, to regulated absolutes,
without review, reveals what tyranny
conceals: seduction of a population
utilizing truth manipulation.
The truth is new each time it's found
and what we bind as truth today
we find no future truth is bound.
Copyright © Tom Mcmurray | Year Posted 2021
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