Our world wasn't made to last.
I'd know.
I was meant to save it, yet here I stand, surrounded by dust.
It bounces upon their corpses, wafting up and around the empty laboratory.
It's the only thing moving now.
It wasn't always like this.
They were happy once, weren't they?
Before they made me, I mean.
I would wonder if they were ever happy
if I cared enough to give them any more thought than I already have.
A pamphlet rests against a desk.
I pick it up
knowing it'll never be touched again.
'Project Meridian- a robot to propel us away.'
A drill bashes through my metal skull
matching the bits of it on my head.
'Exploration beyond your wildest dreams.'
They'd evolved down here
within fire and flame
magma and rock
beneath the crust of the planet.
I was their ticket out.
Not that they'd ever asked me about it.
'Break free of your chains and see what's above you!'
I had done exactly that.
A great escapade into the world.
And my return here
to the place where it all began.
'With our latest technology, we will finally see the future.'
All I could see was the blood-soaked present.
Fire burns hottest
that burns below
Centuries rage
heartache’s grow
The coldest cold
blows just above
A gripping blizzard
—wrath ungloved
(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)
ANTE MERIDIAN
I didn’t have my coffee
I didn’t smoke my cigarette
I don’t face him – I am too bitchy –
so many words in the marriage
they come out like glazed ants
irrational “good morning”
I understand my womanhood
in an amazonian way
an I placate my own voice
in the exertion of waking up
he dances a kiss on my cheek
to peel off the numbness
and dulcifies the leap
from dream to reality
Near the warm candle light, we engage an embrace of sight…
A concentrated gaze focused on empty space…
When your mind goes still a mist becomes my face…
Whirling up from another dimension,
cosmic soul group communicates absent from apprehension…
Your heart is free filled with great power,
spread those angelic wings with a flap to dismantle the false truth tower…
We sent you here to spread a long forgotten message…
Light the mighty earth avatars flame using unconditional love vibration passage…
Knights Knowing Kindred Kingdoms…
Awakens the masses…
Steady
This
Ladder
Like you
Steadied
Your Pace.
Hold it tightly
In your
Troubled
Manner.
Slow it down.
But keep it moving.
Moving
Towards
The Walls.
Up to the
Place
Where
Discrete
Men Shame
When you
Called
My name
Without a
Sound.
Where a blank
Expression
Carries
Craving
Like a parasite
Strapped
To the back of a
Poison.
Where you know you'll ascend.
When your
Steps
Break from
The
Concrete
In a double
Stepping
Speed,
Much like the
Tonic of a
Servicing Seed.
Don't intoxicate me.
Slip your hands
Up
The
Entertainers
Exotic Bars
And
Come
Rising and Climbing
Up
To
The
Hole in the wall.
Let sleep be given,
To the evensong,
As perhaps,
A fallen opulence feather,
Fallen from wings tips flight.
Unconscious in the sojourn,
Of none the more a mind's cease,
Memory will not forsake the need,
To purify the thought of search,
As eyed lids rested plight.
Find me in the breakage,
Of light's asunder,
And Cimmerians's leer,
The tapestry of morning,
To find the gift of dawn,
In the unspoken reflected
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