Noah Piet Poet Free verse

X, In Memoriam

Memory being witnessed as resistance.
Time’s accessory brings assistance in a form of sequence;
mercy given through softened lips of the livid,
built in an architecture preceding reminiscence.

We speak to dismiss
a weakness that lives;
linguistics
echoing
survival of the fittest
in patterns
of disagreement.

To fit with the structure of memory
is to be among the instance

where an alignment
of a version of “you”
combines with that of what
perpetuates persistence;

an alliance almost intrinsic.

Leading identity into these constraints,
invalidating any and all external contradictions.

I can't be certain,
but some will find this
as an achievement.

So what follows
is determination in the loss of patience,
without need of declaring mind in the presence;
vows of confidence representing independence.

Imagine it as hope for a new light,
but dreams too bright
have their own reflections
of what can lead to
a new kind of blindness;
Let it not smear your own image.

All of these actions must be fueled with their ignitions,

and if it be of a power, then this truth will reveal
with the response to a pressure beginning
to grow, while it's assumed another must diminish.

It all makes me wonder,
even if it were to grow toward a dead-end path,
would fairness be a quality of calling it misled?
Or rather, would it be a charitable indecence?

What we seek out we will find,
so we should not want a power we call corrupt,
unless its corruption in us that thrives.

Alternate a replacement with 
something closer,
something akin to be labeled as divine.

We speak.

And so we live.
And so we die.

Let us not rid ourselves of such a fine gift.
Let us prosper for tomorrow to get it right.

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