Author | Poet | Photographer
Daylight savings time — 5 AM
The sun rises up over the Cascades
And I imagine the world to the east.
Kept awake; your smile is the spark
The soul in the melody
The flame to a lantern
Hung high inside my heart
Exposing sheet music and poetry
Pulling it from dusty forgotten shelves
Of time, memory, and the unspoken
Hidden by darkness for so many years
Helping me find where I lost
My box of matches
During all that darkness
God exists not
In grand cathedrals
Nor tempest sermons of
Man; instead—
Infinitesimal pause between
Waves of the sound
Breaths of life
Places only the two of you
Tread together
My blood is bound to water
The sea salt’s in my veins
My drifting bones bleach under sun
Hoping to find a place to rest
Until the next violent tempest
Disease of the mind
It’s rotting your brain
Sunk its fangs into neurons
Instigated masses to climb
Highest point,
Highest knowledge,
No one else can achieve
From your ivory tower
You’ll rot inside out
Spread electron spores
To find new IP homes
But you’ve claimed
This is Absolute Truth
No reality can break
This parasite’s hold
You’re now its host
And it’s eating
Your Soul.
