Ascending Descent
Jonathan’s fall had been so rapid down the obstinate pits
Time had not allowed him any chance to read the writhing
On the wall and he could not have deciphered the ancient
-Language of demise-
He had been below in that shoot so often and languished
On downtrodden trajectories of rock bottom squalor
But the symbols would have been hieroglyphic at best
-Smudged in translation-
When all else fails ever more try falling he thought as
He drew at a straw in a stack of delinquent pikes needling
His apathy desolation discomfort and a long losing soul
-A shot in the dark-
Maybe Jonathan wondered that if he fell so often in
Any case it might matter if he jumped on his own volition
Not to end it all but to gather new resolve in difference
-Leaving indifference behind-
It has to be fast as not to change my ambivalent struggles
The pit looms now and I must seize the day before dusk
At least there would be some light for descent at the start
-Before withering promise-
Better not dabble with the rungs I might need them for latter
I’ll spread myself wide once I am ready to nail those walls
Even a sewer might do when its only one long breath away
-Until clearance’s escape-
In the underworld he came across a kind yellow slick road
On it a traveller not unlike himself and a union from heaven
As they floated dangled and drifted as they wedded their plight
-In changing perspectives-
If Janka and Jonathan had never let go had not sought out the
Depths of their withering journeys had not taken momentum
Not knowing what another day would present in new dawn
-Endless loops in perpetual motion-
Would have arrested stagnancy and stale morbid loneliness
The morale of the story speaks that un-ventured journeys down to
Where hell freezes over may be unpleasant but harvest reward
-From the luxury of oblivion-
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2019
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