Sunday, January 28, 2024

Black of Raven

 



My Sweet Grand Obsession, 


  You were never Real. 


The space between us was some obscure illusion of a veil's touch, 

 Our soul's reaching, breathing, colliding 


In an open space of Fifth dimensions. 


I die here in the 3D, 

  Heart sputtering out, my entire Will, 

Unable to retain motivation, 


Sputtering, Sputtering. 



I no longer want this life, hurts to breathe the open morning air, so chilled- 


The ominous coughing, the refusal to leave the bed. 


What business have I? To even bother to dream? 


What lies have I promised myself to? 


Where is the light of day, here? 

Where is the undercurrent that is supposed to be the untainted part of my undamned soul? 


Are we Damned? Plighted Fools....


I just don't think I can....


Go through with this. 


Sputtering, Sputtering Out. 


Love is not Real, I think. 


It is only a series of illusions and lies we tell ourselves, when the Romantic in us has long departed. 


Women don't always have their choice. We are not all born of strength and bred to bare unbearable things; many of us breaking long before death consumes the rest of our flesh. 


You would never save me. I watched you drowning trying to save yourself. Had you noticed? 


And somewhere I think I hear an echo off current, Grandmother's voice....saying you could do better. 


And somewhere yet, I wonder had she? 

I wonder if we, 


Are syncing the same mistakes. 


If I, am stringing myself up once again in this life, 

For no good reason at all, 


Accept for Legacy- Sacrifice- Survival. 


Have I indeed, made every move, some blighted and damned wretched choice? 


Because it is only punishment here.


I see no light promised to me. 


Where in fact, has it ever been, but some illusion of my own fancy, temporary, and temporal. 


Laughing in my face, like a scoring demon. 


What of it has ever been real? 


For I think myself, must have become


A Damned Creature. 


Damp. And Damned. 


And Forever Rotting. 


I suffer in this flesh, 


Either by the grace of God, 


Or by the chains of Lucifer and his clan that has been forever on my trail. 


This House, a paradox between worlds where both know where to find me. 


Where Angels stand guard, and Demons slink about. 


She is a Black Raven, constantly dancing her death, never falling out...


And I am merely some shadow of her. 


She is something else, some Shaman between spaces...


And I am just her ghost. 


Either way....there is so little light here in this place. And I feel a need to break away. 


I can not harbor her forcefield, 

As she implodes. 












Saturday, January 27, 2024

The Land of the Blind






I started reading again. 

 I started to find a will within myself, to pry my body from bed. 


I began to forgive those, that use and have trespassed against my sacred temple. 


I began to give myself permission to restore my sight. 


I had given them all so much power. 


Given my childhood home the power to snatch my soul and snuff my light


Given she they deem mother the power over my desperate rejection & insatiable martyrdom


Given my lovers the power over my identity and independence 


Given He, the power of my abuse. 


I had stowed away for years and years in this tiny box, fomenting death within 


Because I let this world, and her kin, try to swallow and try to tame 


The singular truth of my existence. 


It would never be inconsequential...


But they denied me prophesies and they denied my truths, even as God whispered in my ringing ears, in all darkness and all void. 


I rejected them, in their incontinence and took up with the Holy Christ, 


And the Divine of all creatures, cursed, wretched and those beloved and graced. 


He would abandon his child. 


She would foment not love and leave the family broken and scorched. 


Mother would drive the cowardice away, and replace it for something perhaps degrees more awful. 


Torcher occurs by the mentally ill of House and Spirit... 


And I did climb upon that cross with Christ's ghost and take up the sins of all those that profess to love me 


And of this dark world which I would be given sight, 


As I have bled out, how I cried out to God in all the heavens to relieve me of this burden he has granted upon my soul. 


He told me, I "only have to keep going". 


And it was I, myself, who plucked myself from the cross, 


And I myself who fell, hardly still living to my knees from it...


And I myself, with the power of Him alone, would tremble of stamina to my feet, 


That I could do as he tasked...


And  just...

 

    Keep....


        Going. 


So it was he spake to me. 


So it was I would be granted the vision once more, that I had rendered away from my own self


As it was devastating to see


   In the Land of the Blind.