Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Holy Ghost (a love poem)
Holy Ghost where are you tonight as
dry summer air envelopes
the remote distance
between my love and I
our once dank supple bones
worn crippled and crisp
for more than a season now
you and I have fallen
one night closer toward the ancient burial
and missed
Telephone wires mockingly intimidate
our brief and feeble intimacy
alien to present nightfall
this rural city background
ashen and azure through complacent evening
before grim suburban skylines we
as premature pigeons
continue fetching breadcrumbs
up local cable poles
fail and
repeatedly hang from the wiring
only
to be yanked down into divine domestication
by God's humane hand
Holy Ghost it is no other
than you who have
let me down the most
gently back onto planet earth
returning us to Mother Nature
Instilling morality into
the damned and wicked
forgiving the world
in it's unforgivable folly
I hate you tonight Holy Ghost
You took my girl
and her aerial retinas away from me
temporarily shuttering the dreamscape windows
to my soul
enclosing me in your cold reality
leaving me mumbling an
'Our Father' to you
in the vacuous darkness
and it's writhing solemnity
If you're listening now
please bring my girl back
before the Autumn
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