" OURS WILL BE DONE "




SOMETIMES IT IS FAR EASIER TO LEAVE UNSAID -
AND LET THE FEELINGS AND GESTURES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES -
AND COMMUNICATE THE LACK OF WORDS.-
AND A PANEGYRIC IS HARDLY NECESSARY.
SINCE THE SUPERLATIVES JUST DON'T NEED TO BE SAID,
REITERATED- AND ENGULFED WITHIN
THE DISHARMONY OF PRAISE.

PERHAPS THE HUMAN ANIMAL IS,
IN THE FINAL JUST A HUMAN ANIMAL, -AND
MUST PERFORCE EXPRESS ITSELF IN A TABULATED WAY.
BUT WHAT IS TRUE AND REAL,
IS TRUE AND REAL,
EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE MORALLY WRONG
AND ETHICALLY FALSE.

IT IS NOT ETHICS AND MORALS THAT MEAN MUCH,
IT IS THE QUEST FOR A SIMPLICITY AND HARMONY
THAT GIVES THE WILL POWER TO STOP,
THOUGH IT HAS TO EXERT EVERY SINEW.
BECAUSE THIS SIMPLICITY IS WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET
IN LIFE COME HELL OR HIGH WATER.

ITS GOT TO HAPPEN!
COULD I LOVE YOU TOO FULLY
TO LOVE YOU FULLY,
IMPRISON IT IN WORDS,
OR IS IT JUST ANOTHER PIECE OF HOLLOW JARGON
THAT GUARDS THE NEED AND THE GREED THAT ENCRUSTS IT?


THE MORNING HAS DAWNED
SO CLEAR AFTER SO LONG, -AND
THE LIFE THAT LEFT MY VEINS RETURNS,
TO FLOW ONCE MORE WITH THE MOVEMENT OF LIFE ITSELF.
I DO NOT KNOW REALLY KNOW WHAT TO SAY,
PERHAPS A COMBINATION OF SORRY AND THANK YOU
FOR BEING SO BEAUTIFUL!

IN THIS FRACTURED MESS OF FEELINGS
THAT PASSES FOR OUR LIVES,
THERE COME SOME MOMENTS
WHEN A BEAUTY IS BORN,
THAT SHATTERS THE FRACTURED MESS, -AND
BUILDS ON ITS RUINS
A CITADEL OF PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING.
ONE THAT TRANSCENDS ALL MORALS ETHICS -AND
CODES INVENTED OR TO BE INVENTED.

"THAT'S," WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
THE REST CAN BE EASILY CONQUERED,
GIVEN A LITTLE TIME,
A LITTLE UNDERSTANDING- AND
ONE HELL OF A LOT OF WILL POWER.

"OURS WILL BE DONE."


~ Lonely Being ~

 

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