Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Mirror Wall

Nothing affects the numb, the impenetrable mirror wall of air
Surrounding thoughts as if no eagle can fly above or rabbit burrow under
The plane is thick like a time thief stolen and the heart beats
Seeing the grand empty stadiums of nothingness gathering in the glare 

Playing sport with hell and paradise inoculating men to deed
Means nothing to me
The challenges of routine appear like robotic instructions programmed in code
To carry out iterations for a given span of promises of ones and zeroes  

Through the gray unknowns, barking the only inoculant to the numb
Is to write, to drip out a measure of something worth a damn-bit
That this day was different, proven back amongst the others
That the endless thoughts in a set of hours mattered enough to assert 

A singularity of mention in the annals of historic fiction
That this life was worth living for a moment of illusion
Like a glistening ornament on a holiday no one believes in anymore
Transformed from living breathing organism into hung globes of snow  

Memories of no one knows, of stars and synthetic boreal behemoths
Assembled to bear credence to the passage of other days before that
Now crumpled into an attic and packed into a corner, viewed in revision
Promise of what honest is in comparison  

The days fall like snowflakes misting on with the pancakes steaming syrup
Sticky and salivating credence that days could breathe and begin again anew
The closets closed, the fabrics outgrown, the socks and feet they stir, they meet
The holidays of normalcy like Homer and his hound together gripped  

Like thoughts of suicide and Christmas
Thousands see another stream of Tuesday-normality
The wall of air buffers firm the stock of inventory blocked
Into dollars and currency charging the laws of a future’s gravity  

Exhausted in the stretch, never wanted the measure of a breath
To respiration moving gold, love’s treasures bought and sold
In the minutes ticking of someone asking for an answer with others talking
Doesn’t matter if the response is right, only that a blank is filled  

A solider returned, a man was killed, a body sits in post-traumatic stress
Idling nothingness of purpose, a man made to massacre and could not last the winter
With no one left to die, a skeleton has no tears to cry

Images return fly around the ceiling of the room like a winter’s wren
Coming in from the cold and trapped inside a living room grown old
Never leaving for seed his stomach is stretched to believe
Freedom must come from within and yet it so rarely ever does  

Cannot escape the turns, the days, the sun it all seems the same
The rise, the lies, the compromise to spell the names
Of men who use to bear my face
Too many lives lived in one case  

That was not me, not the me I am today
Not the man I want to face, not the man who can say the same
Loved a world that killed him, died until it ended stiff 

Rested and repair, the body of a man who is no longer there
Mirror lies and gives the mind the urge to scare
Scrape the shell and bend the hell into a power of the self
Carry-with the nutrients of time, the forest burned and soil shinned  

Savor man and hearts expand, belief that winter ends
March it sends the messages of trespasses to lend
The will to see the morn as a dream of forlorn
The love of meanings born  

In the hold of a child, the smile of a woman
The heart of understandings forgiven
In the prayers of heart spoken to the self
All the bygones ready for anyone to read on a shelf  

Lay them out ubiquitous turned meaningless
Say the refrains until they no longer sound pains
The repetition is internal volition to never succumb
To never fall prey to wish that what was could ever be undone  

Wars have been fought, bombs ignited and launched
The spears struck and tips broken off
Never get them out hold the handle like a spout
Only chance to pour the poison out  

Given time the blood is inviting the sharks
Stay so still, the ocean is bred to kill
Don’t speak, lie to the face of those that can breathe
Above the surface, dive to survive, dive, dive, dive  

Come back when evolved, see the sun and forget the calls
The bells and the snow, the moments of the calendar begin
Revolve and see that nothing ever ends, only choices made and made again  

Bloom the bloody days and melt the rings in the fire's hearth
See the lines blur and the discussions start
The monotony of cosmology, to seek the universe and see irrelevance
To see the opposite of every semblance  

Mirror out what is held within means the end of men
Reflection slow and welcome in the light of outside snows
Window’s transparency returns and all the lessons of the world are learned
Anyone becomes an outlet, an exit, a topic, a route and time revolts  

Ticking not in simulacrum-notation but an army of original manifestations
Each a lure, each a beauty obscured by the glare, the mirror of a turn
A choice inside the boast that this was all there is and testify the testament
The book, the books written and burned, burned and burned  

See the fire and all the days to unlearn
Now that the glow is finally gone, a man can see outside and walk through walls

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