The Universe Running Downward
(from a bridge at 4 AM in the Winter)
Bearing witness to immutable tragedies
We've seen Sanskrit engraved upon ancient pyramid walls
Biorhythms of baroque intensity
coruscating within molecules of our small intestines
as we try to sleep
only this
is not a dream but an
artificial (humanity),
terrestrial firmament of light and lies,
what I'm trying to say is
I know because
1) I've stood from a bridge peering downward
at 4 am towards the sea,
vicariously overlooking the tragedy of my youth
The sea remained immutable to the tragedies
peering downward at 4 AM,
our past sorrows perpetuate
the immutable sea of human desire.
I loved a woman
I never loved a woman
Looking outward over the city lights
(in all their complexity)
at 4 am in the wintertime,
I saw an indecisive seagull towering over the sea,
indifferently wavering,
I was that seagull once
perennially oscillating,
towering,
condescending my soul to the sea
ambiguous
people and traffic lights
wrought my nerves to the brink
of oblivion
if I let them, while
working an abysmal
graveyard shift
enduring lies and
deceit, preoccupying my time, the
pride of life reverberated within the
ancient nocturnal city
at 4 AM coming down
from methamphetamine
watching Forensic Files
under the city lights,
I saw nothing once and
bared false witness to the
nothing twice
serving
demonic childhood ideals of
falsehood and avarice,
these Ancient misunderstood
women
permeate my subconscious
while I'm trying to sleep at 4 AM
under the sea of the nocturnal city lights,
closer and older now,
the universe running downward
upon a
rowhome in South Philadelphia
toward the rural city outskirt
the sea of nocturnal city lights,
remain immutable at 4 AM in the winter.
see me in my bedroom then
while I was trying to sleep.
shouting upward from tenement dooryards to a 2nd story window
Failing to sleep during the day,
because the ancient women will find me dreaming and
castrate my fears
with their primordial shears of innocence
drenched
with blood
the swaddling cloth embracing
urban sink faucets
I've pondered these faucets from
other peoples sofas in the city
awaking to daily news of deaths and overdoses,
pocketchange tsunamis
hidden within
the inverted gaudy loveseat
of human time,
is a lie but real
at the same time
I used to drink red wine in the wintertime by myself
cursing the ancient women,
they only wanted me to view myself
as they did,
to be like-minded
only
I do not love them
nor want to be like-minded
at 4AM
gazing downward
over nocturnal city lights
fabricating the immutable tragedy
of time
as it bashes our skulls inward,
our spirits outward
toward the immutable sea of penitence
I was never above the sea,
I only thought I was
that is what the ancient women were trying to tell me.
Selah
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