Saturday, April 12, 2014

THE OLDER ONES

Our own brains are canned in bone
We rarely think of this when left alone

With three times as many appendages 
as an octopus. Memories dim as dreams 
take over the mind. From what depths 
we dared our hold on history

We crossed the gap arriving 

and gasping for air from the shore
At the cellular level aware of our 
capacity to adapt. There is no justification 
for polluting an entire planet. The reason 
for this is because neither does justice exist
Only a sort of static balance 
amid the roiling turmoil 

An  entire world exists outside our thought
We have words that represent the aspects 

of that world. Mountain, stone, water, sinew 
feather, lightning, thunder, dark
Keep these words true to your heart 

and align yourself with earth
Disregard abstractions such as good

evil, truth, justice, etc

They work to cloud the mind and further 

obfuscate our lives. Lives we are dreaming 
up on the spot so get with it and wake up
The ancient lords who swam up from 

the greatest depths. We are surrounded 
by them today just take a look around
Kings of our dominion are wearing 

our own clothes dressed to kill 

Groomed with immaculate grace pupils 

full blown in our face. Everything Is Under 
Control someone possessed of sardonic wit 
once wrote. Except for the grip we may have 
on our own lives we suppose
One thing matters in the dark 

protected by calcified helmets
Extruded upright by gravity 

and guided by the wind

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