Monday, July 11, 2016

Dusted Chrome

Inspiration precedes creation.
Condemnation secedes, forcibly,
ideal structures, growth and lucid rapture.
To capture the impossible etiquette.
Motivate our hands and eyes to action,
this commonplace in need of support.
   Intellectual disparity, appetite for originality,
   gives worth to papercuts and an extra hour over coffee.
     But desire does not grow from expectation.
     A stern draft, grading for enlightenment.
        Hatred burns at the root of tragedy-
        its fuel, repetition;
        its catalyst, displaced education,
        and the climax is dissonant
        from superstitious reality.
           Bliss is a catastrophe, unworthy of compulsion.
           Especially alone, waiting ahead in the night’s meaning
           with a pillow for your aching head
           and a cleaver for your beating heart.
           One does well to remember an adage:
              The value of a text is brilliant.
              Failure is a necessity.
              Perfection rides on the backs of dragon-men,
              and their eyes is spelled “fire”
              not of a literal tribe, but of implication.
              A fact not lost on the versed and critical.
             Which, argued, should be social.
                 My friends, I urge for the sake of the modern
                 Not to leave life to the flies
                 but instead express, explore,
                 and for the love of all, think
                 lest we pray everyday
     for the fortune of the world to shake us alive.

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