The Pope's Egg Hat
Not caring,
truly blinded
I leave this box with twisted face
And everything
you ever wanted
White,
against glass
Dead as
names from bellies tightened
Something
must be done about this
They have
robbed us of a cheapened life
Permit
us only a sense of pity
Brought
on by brutality and unconcerned eyes
Lives in
squalor, sick or in prison
The doors
old game, all night caught nothing
A member
of that body, that one mind in memory alone
No razor
nor fermented liquids
In vaulted
power shall gain dominion over death
Fast moving,
crazy, wandering
Nature's
mutation of ghastly face
Heavy canvas
holding cave like drip rot
One hand
winds in deep space time
Halfway
down my deathwatch ticks
And this
sermon of agony draws all of my attention away from the years
No great
outcry of bodies in godless commotion
Look at
their dauntless courage to this good news
Black night
hearts leading them astray
And these
heroic deeds done in leaping blaze
Across
centuries of mental assent
Should
we resign such human frailties?
As in heaven's
tongue confess!
And if this
outline is a blueprint of fear, turn away
Seed split
then altered by day
Frowning
signs, yellowed slowly in smolders
Do we not
occupy such thrones?
The proof
of scars catching man in his own trap of salvation
It is the
positive core of checks and balances
It is not
in fire's abbrogated fate
Is it a
stirring reaffirmation of hope's final warfare?
Are we
not restrained in morning star indulgence?
Standing
at the gate, slaves as royal shift
A smear
of wasp sized jewels
Glitter
madly as the throat is cut from ear to ear
Ever widening
circles engulf these molten days
So that
love and mercy might walk in newness, active faith
A unity,
we know, that must never be broken
On the other
hand, you are a brother of foreign land
A green
eyed monster
All of
you sheep, not lords, but servants
Seperated
from the sphere of truth before sin
And we
shall view the resurrection of the dead
Come to
know the end of human foldings
A graceless
life already spent in lethal, evening rains
One crack
in this otherwise seamless egg