Lullaby No.27 - A Ghost

A ghost raced by the water

From the outside looking in

He saw his future self

Staring like a spirit laid across the waves

Dark grey clouds canvased the stark lit branches

The sun set through the empty conversation

A silhouette of love (in-verse)

A darkness from the inside looking out

Through the blue dusk painted on your glass

The dusky red on the rim of your step

Like the long shadow of night

Cast by your former self

Dancing along the water

’Til the morning settled in

A new life to crest and drink

From troughs along the garden of remembrance

Two ghosts in new dress

Handsomely waiving the continuity

And the water under the bridge was bulging

Time stood still from that moment

Jason Greendyk

www.jasongreendyk.com

2nd Sermon on Reason - A Few Unspoken Words

We celebrate the individual creative

Overcoming the confines of tradition

Following the death of God

And the rise of the overman

Human beings their own Gods

That created their own worlds

Much like us

And now a deity, Reason

Our purpose twofold

First, within a house of God

To vanquish His shadow from our minds

Second, as reasonable human beings

To kill out dearest Reason

And thereby transcend ourselves

To fulfill the vision of the philosopher

That the work of a great poet

Would be to contemplate God’s boredom

After the seventh day of creation

Hear the Seven Sins of today’s God,

Which is Reason

Silencing the echo

Of the Seven Deadly Sins

Hear of the old God,

How He was killed by force of Reason

And how we can kill Reason,

By sheer will,

And be free

But His shadow was long

God’s boredom was our own

For He had given us Reason

By which to recreate Him

In our own image,

Forevermore

Jason Greendyk

www.jasongreendyk.com