Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Human Comedy

Let the leading edge
As you revel in the human comedy
Where your very existence
Hangs on a few words
Spun into the threads of information
Illuminated in the mourning dew
Your awareness clung to
O’er the wide world’s one long night
Spilling many rivers of language
Into the fading of your consciousness
And pouring your carefully reasoned words
To run along the trails of dreams
Stuck in a spiraling web
Making sure to find the clean grey light
Of a foggy-headed morning
You’ve waited all your life
For the truth of Reason’s prophecies
To disrobe
Unveiled and nude
In your delicate longing
Obsessive and compulsive
And meditating on the violence of the sea
As the waves that would set us
Rocking to and fro
For the logical outcome to prevail
In the drama of your thought
Ebbing with the human tides
Towards a climax – la petite mort
And reaching for a dry cloth
To cover You again


Jason Greendyk, www.jasongreendyk.com

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