Is there a prayer one might whisper to invoke a gentler mind..
Published: January 5th 2024, 4:43:20 pm
Is there a prayer
one might whisper
to invoke a gentler mind?
Some incantation
to incite the wake
of a slumbering sea
whose winds have retreated
to their Æolian chamber,
having razed the surface
of a despondent coast irreparable,
leaving an emptiness
within a mere reflection of stars
that drifts in the echo
of inimitable silence –
The pulse I rest in
is one of peace
attained solely
by the obedient absence
of the storm
complacent in a quiet
that is borrowed,
that is shallow in effect,
affecting each tender sinew
I claim as my own
as the tendrils of memory
spiral into antiquity.
Every breath occurs within a reliquary
as dispassionate as it is disused,
a foreign amphora to be emptied,
existing in quadrants,
struggling for necessity.
To what compound fracture of self can I attribute these insufficiencies?
My machine is the Xeno that inspires insurrection.
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