For Radical Tony Trapped In the Ivory Tower
Write have you the Spirit,
Mend have you the thread.
Reach what aches to hear it, and
Fear no unmade bread.
A culture is a chimney
that smokes a sordid soul.
Bleached and soaked,
cut and battered to hovel off
the edges knoll,
but Time past and Time future
say Eliot, are night alone;
are only so far a phantom
as no light inside ones home.
You are light inside a fortress,
a candle in a flame.
A bud amoungst a forest,
a bee amidst a hive.
Your sting is sharp and fatal,
more deadly than the rest.
Your meals are more than honey;
than canopy blessed.
Your Spirit is a tempest
that has no fear of flight; and
the dawn knows no horizon
burning red this endless night.
This Time it is a phantom.
The lights have left the home,
but still,
we are bees and flowers,
and honey.
and light.
Copyright © Local Order | Year Posted 2018
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