Little copper seeds
Precious jewel from the East
Balanced blood sugar
Mucilage for the GI
Great healing with fenugreek
A Flood of Tears
When tears glue eyed lids’ tar to balls of fire
and tear apart a soothing balm called resolution
as tar defeats the lysosomes of ragged vision
a third eye calls for sixth sense in a sickened time
a cry for a cry decries a festering splinter inside out
When shackled chakra invites distorted sounds
sticks on that loopy tone and tune in endless loops
as hearing plasters mucilage in mutilation’s muteness
a third ear of quietude invites a healing frequency
a voice reprimands cacophony and beats the drums
When smell exudes a sewer’s skewer
taste falls foul on buds and buts again
touch lost its grip on grapple’s clench
and rotting leaves leave decomposed what’s left behind
one message remains to battle out the wreckage
There is no phoenix no panacea no external healing
no clever plot to complete the warring conqueror’s return
let alone no algorithm or conceited panoply of ease
but only you can change the things you try and can
and everything starts with longing length for suffering to cease
Crimson river, tide so wide, mucilage aged in thee
Blessed be the one to pray against the raging sea
Pusillanimous feelings, no honor, resting in an ossified wind
Redemption begets the soil destined for sin
Back away, crush the inside mold, break the pattern
Hot iron strikes the furious percipient mind in discern
Distrust the dogmatic absolute, praise be it in me
Fretful art thou, take flight in haunted melodies
“What is this?” you asked with such hateful discontent
A safe haven of admiration and respectful reverence or contempt
Be it may or be it not, it consumes thy heart with ravaged pain
“Does thou have faint of heart with discourse for bloodstain?”
Sanctify, anoint, consecrate or be damned
Haphazardly except the secrets passed on hand to hand
The ambiguity of said consecration only impairs judgment
So beware what you wish for it may arise in malcontent
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