Categories:
enormity, stars,
Form: Free verse
Enormity of It All
Where do you start,
When this world opens up
In front of you,
When this hidden view
Reveals itself in one big bang.
I knew I wasn’t normal
From an early age
But when you hear it all,
It still shocks.
The attempted murder, rape,
Sexual assaults,
Suicides, attempted suicides,
Addicts of all different flavours,
Take your pick.
Adoptions,
Brain tumours,
Autism,
Kids born blind
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Categories:
enormity, family, murder, suicide,
Form: Prose
The Enormity of Existence, Part 3
I shudder
in this great sleep
to awaken--
to understand,
to see,
to know.
Why the mind?
Grasping a bit here,
a bit there--
the pieces
never, never
to come together.
Why do we long,
And what is it
we long for:
the light of God--
all we need,
all we want--
to bask in it,
the one true
luxury.
Yet darkness clings
to us even in the
brightest daylight.
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Categories:
enormity, allusion, angst, confusion, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The Enormity of Existence, Part 2
This world is so heavy upon us,
we scarcely can know of the Other
as it impinges on this world
of flesh and bone, air and water,
sky and mountain, man and woman....
Our bodies are too fine--
instruments of unending sensation
from birth to death,
our brains so vast in imagination...
yet so small in comprehension.
We live in
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Categories:
enormity, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Enormity of Existence
Can a denier believe?
Can a man of God doubt?
Can a prisoner leave?
Can a king go without?
Can children die?
Can stars ordain?
Can songbirds cry?
Can deserts rain?
Can killers heal?
Can healers kill?
Can the sun melt?
Can it be felt?
Can the soul see?
Can my soul hear?
Can God be?
Can time disappear?
[posted 12/2012]
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Categories:
enormity, allusion, god, imagery, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Enormity
In the ruins of yesteryears
a cave of harrowed woods
and it saves;
These tears dry and I bear;
The wind comes today
Gushing past the wild mountains
Have I not hold my heart
For why they rush to pierce?
This lust of the dusky sky
With the words I wept through
You have heard all;
Yet you rest in tranquil lie
Forever more
And pieces of
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Categories:
enormity, life, passion, sad,
Form: I do not know?