There we were
all lined up, the girls
dressed like little brides,
the boys in white shirts
and ties, hands joined
in a slow shuffle towards
the wholly incomprehensible.
At that age you believe in
anything you're told
though it was not belief
that was the problem
but the penalties
for not believing that
set a horror loose
to crush our little souls.
Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible is a real thing, just believe it, and your mind will create
Create and get it. That's what you want from life, in the existence of life
Life, maybe not now, the goal may be a bit far, far from your present life
Yeah, the reality always exists, only sometimes it is hidden or forbidden
Mysterious forces control you, this is your fate, yours, but not from you
You can drive yourself with the secret knowledge of the supernatural powers
This power is forbidden; only the initiated can get it. The chosen individuals
So incomprehensible is it could be accurate, and it is that in another life
Here or there?
Where?
There
Where?
Here
So it is done
An incomprehensible world
Everything is changing, always in this life and world
Everywhere, there is no fixed point in life, no stable
The ever changing-world has no heart, lives to die, and die
Why? Sometimes to relax, be quiet, and listen to the heart
These are so nice things, to enjoy the feelings of soul
But our world is too material. Hm, where is the nature?
I don’t understand our life, the life, what gave me my life
What is coming later? Why good the insensitive life? Life??
Can not be understandable for me this life. Life, be life!
why chance genetic dice throw
gifted me finite time
solely to contemplate
(more than just my navel)
meaningfulness analogous
to scrutinizing Möbius strip
unable to identify
inscrutable mystery
defining random existence
specifically essence
happenstance/circumstance
which begat me Matthew Scott Harris.
His noggin mottled, plagued, and riddled
with debilitating accursed impediments
since birth circa
January xiii mcmlix.
No one ever told me
I was made to do anything.
Like those kids
picked out last in gym class.
I say it is fine
and that nothing happened,
but inside I am seven again,
holding my mother's hand
and with eyes full of half-frozen tears
I ask her, why?
Oh New Year,
Incomprehensible to me you are
For
Though New they call you, old age
You bring!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
27 December 2019
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a forest
of stars
shine
bright...
gleam,glimmer,
to give
a glimpse
of the
immortelle...
an
endless vision
of eternity..
in undefined
expectancy
Cannot comprehend
Nor decipher
When amber
Street lamps flicker
Like some sort of
Morse code
Incomprehensible! (A Brief Critique)
Monomaniacally, Thomas Sterns Elliot
wrote in The Waste Land a Lyrical Lay
Sadly for those of us hollow like other men
Incomprehensible! Take it away!
The incomprehensible love of God
Softens the heart and mind;
Leads us to repentance,
So forgiveness we do find.
Upon the cross of Calvary,
The mystery of redemption began.
God’s love for all humanity—
The whole wide world to span.
We can choose to resist God’s love,
But without resistance will be drawn;
Drawn to the foot of the cross;
A transformation to be born.
This incomprehensible love
Influences the heart and soul;
Unconsciously works upon the mind,
And quickens the conscience to roll.
Such incomprehensible love
Is foreign to those who deny
To seek truth and their Savior
And will perish in the nigh.
Their hearts are full of selfish pride
Of what they’ve accomplished;
Denying God’s hand over their lives,
And His Spirit that has diminished.
God’s incomprehensible love
Gives a sincere desire to do right.
To seek love and peace for all,
Rather than antagonism and fight.
Only the broken and contrite heart
Feels the true need of a Savior;
The need of His incomprehensible love;
His mercy, pardon and unmerited favor.
Copyright © Maureen LeFanue 2011
www.godsgreetings.org
The more life experiences
The more incomprehensible
Power of life
Now here I am floating in the vessel
The warmth still here in this body of water
Soon I shall release this flesh
Open the wound that pains me so
It is calling me now
A romance with the darkness
To think I am in control
I was given the master key
The key to me
I shall manipulate the how, the why
Don’t cry
Tears only pool my vision
Slowly I will descend into my shallow breath
Muffling under water distance echoes
I leaving this body now
Blue blood turns to scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons grow like hungry snakes
Soon the vessel bleeds a cardinal’s coat
Pale extremities adrift
Peacefully stagnant
Lifeless in winter’s abyss