Daily Archives: April 19, 2020

repose of indifference

 

today i placed you
in my box of death –
closed the lid –
allowed your darkness,
absence – from my light…


bundled up,
with ribbons of regret,
i laid your sorrow by the door –
safe outside the fortress of my heart.

silent –
contained inside my chamber of refrain –
i watched the raindrops attach themselves to windows – closed,
clinging with cold deliberation to the glass…

today i placed your memory
where the shadows grow –
waited without sound –
allowed the silence audience in the arena of despair.

today –
i lingered for a moment more
upon the shore of your demise.
said my farewells –
loosened chains of regret,
and in that instant of your escape,
this captive heart,
realized,
for the first time,
how it felt to be finally set free…

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accoutrements of irrelevance

indiscriminate –
obtrusive –
the frustration of a reality unintended.
what purpose creation –
ownership of concept –
if allowed to be flawed?
 
to try to understand the purpose of life without accepting the eventuality of death is frivolous – fictitious.
what would define hope if everything imagined was real –
tangible?
what reason would there be for faith in a world lacking supposition?
 
so often we raise our voice –
scream callous denigration –
to anyone that deviates from our predetermined paradigms of socially accepted behavior.
and if our articulation of doctrine fails to assuage the masses,
we reach into our arsenal of jurisprudence –
recite with zealous intent retributions from apocrypha of self-assumed conviction…
 
in the end –
judgment.
 
regardless action without faith –
faith without action –
submission to the author of creation stands paramount to absolution.
 
and yet i see you standing there –
self-imposed elevation –
placing accoutrements of irrelevance on the scale of (un)belief…
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