Wed, 07 Jul 2004
topforever
Zeno sings of the infinity in small spaces
and small steps recalling Sisyphus' task in an relativistic way
light is eternal embodied in an equation
you imagine forever is a long, long time
still Zeno notwithstanding and even Einstein did not get this right all things change (my soul instinctively recoils, both in horror and with a sick, desperate hope)
with the stirring of the coffee cup and the flutter of a butterfly wing the little packet of light striking the insides of my eye (a little gasp of air slips through my pursed lips I promised to stop chasing unicorns today--)
I drink and breathe light now my illusion of company and soft words spoken into my ear (Without it I thirst and gasp in solitude and silence)
I sing to myself dreaming pretending (watch the light shimmer in her bright hair as she twirls it around her fingers--
very much like the light of the sun I can feel her warmth and marvel at her brightness but can never clasp my arms around her)
Can you walk in loneliness for so long that you imagine that he is your only companion? From this emptiness, wreak infinite creation? From the meanderings of the labyrinth straight, broad paths?
In this ash and dust, somehow was breathed a soul Within meat and blood, enraptured, entrapped
Wisdom cannot be bought enmeshed in dead leaves and twine and still I pore over these textbooks as if life and love would explode forth in utter surprise catastrophically overwhelm me with joy
The pages do not speak except perhaps for the echoed whispers dwelling in my mind
Sometimes I fancy that the mad voices have taken up residence squatters and usurpers laying their arses upon the seat of my soul
I should just put up a sign saying "Abandoned" and give Dante and Virgil my keys
Hope is the currency of the living Like the prodigal son poor only because I have squandered my wealth now knowing where gold lies guarded by walls and steel is enough to turn me into a thief and an oathbreaker besides.
(Unicorn, oh, unicorn!)
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