The Waiting
“The Waiting”
eyes close
the new chapter
picks us up
we find ourselves
lost in the poetic dream
stranded in a desert
a lifetime away from home
we are in the waiting place
writing words in the sand
they are blown away
like each cortex in the brain
just eternal time remains
the distinguishing between
real and dream disappearing
bit-by-bit, closer to the finish line
we pin ourselves to walls
like butterflies watching
words and moments reviewed
we are scrutinised
mercilessly by
our own minds
we place our trust in the
gossamer promises
in ancient stories spoken
the waiting captures us in its palms
of what if, what for
we think we know it all
but we don’t
we wait in the game
of it all
flying past us
mistranslated messages
prophecies, in truth, undecipherable
the meanings, there are many
how could we understand
we are not gods, we are man
silent hyenas gather
in the confines of the glassy mirror
before us, all compartmentalised
in their dark night,
laughing their last laughs
they circle still hungry and intent
the owls of Ba’al hoot
like clocks
chiming midnight
waiting for the Sun
like a great lord to rise
from sleep
throw open his doors
small gods and ghosts
console and reassure us
and we wait in the waiting place
like lost servants
shuffling each other in line
like playing cards
for what we think
is coming
lost in our belief
we think we know it all
we look for open doors
prayer rugs on our walls
the waiting never ends
it sings so many stings
we listen to the never ending
sucked in
the breath of it all
numb and open
we are magnets
we close our windows for fear
of drawing something other in
we shut our doors to others
when Time calls, this shocks us
for weren’t we good, the Lot of us, at all?
The time of sleep calls
we dream to escape tomorrow
we dream it never folds nor falls
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Sounds of the Desert | Night Time Desert Ambience | Sleep & Relax
https://youtu.be/6T7zuo8k3oc
"Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts,
Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species.
The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior
to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone
shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably,
the superior of Jahveh.”
Thomas Henry Huxley,
The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baal-ancient-deity
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/73647
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Elohim
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yahweh
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chemosh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_cortex
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