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The Atheist and the End of the World
i.
I suck at being holy.
Can't write poetry worth a damn,
I can't pump sunshine up my blanks
or my blind side. My mileage will
always vary.
Can't help but think the world is no more than a rock
in a hard place,
torpedoing out in space, hurtling to some final destination,
each and every being thinking the answer is
written in pure poetry, holy prophecy or
monetary concurrency.
Smiling at my own absurdity, I alternate between the
ticking, and the tocking and the rocking, sometimes write poetry with
a straight face, as if there were a God quacking at creation
and hiding the trumpet card we all strive to die for.
Nothing can be further from God's lawful but awful truth. The
pendulum swings and the sun shines anyway. Another
atheist savors the time dust, another lost soul writes
an unworthy poem.
ii.
Mine eyes have seen the glory but nothing lasts forever,
not even your Beloved.
This poem is a work in progress. This poem is self-destructive.
Last few words:
.Life just plain sucks sometimes and there is nothing one can do but ride it out, as long as the brain is still firing its messages.
~A
Editing stage:
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Comments
Nordic cloud
Fri, 2012-02-03 10:25
ice and flames of human ideas,
This has great potential Anna, I find it richly interesting as if I were witness to some crashing boulders of thoughts juxtaposed between faith and fear, disbelief and anger. That makes poetry, good poetry doesn't it? I look forward to this becoming either epic or enlarged to drift over the ice and flames of human ideas,
see you have inspired me to think, dance on the coals of your embers.
LuvyaAnn.
"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.
Geezer
Mon, 2012-02-06 20:49
Poets are...
lost souls, attempting to regain a portion of humanity by explaining themselves. ~ Gee
There is value to commenting and critique, tell us how you feel about our work.
This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.
Kailashana2
Tue, 2012-02-07 08:11
Loved your comment, Sir G.
Loved your comment, Sir G. Thank you.
Thank you. Potential or Poetential, Ann? lol
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