Betwix || Invocation

 

When you have sat safe in your house

what have you been knowing?

A creed did govern: what is found

without hope

loss

appearing down, led by silent screams

the beat of drum

war skins and the sweat underneath

standing found

a cool hardness

to the line that drips and shifts

changes grip

existentialism varies between existence

threat to unity and crucible

the feel of flesh on flesh

ideas made real.

Is this the safety of my mind?

A palace analogue fooled by diminishment.

I am the world and the stars fall

about me, swirl, universal

and there is fear at the end of me

as we become all things

becoming principle

desirous

temperate in the warmth of a gentle hand

that knows when not to take

but give

supple in the exchange of stances and self

we can handle fear in the translation

this truth for your pain

minded in fundamentals dancing

can you hear the song soar, sure

fire ricochet undulate.

I was alone in too many hours

knew too many lasts. But what shaped me was us.