Saturday 5 October 2019

A Different Kind of Narcissus (the kind that is Eternal)

I see you
I see through you
And I know you
Your shiny brown eyes
Through and through

Glossy two-way (it feels)
mirrors, no, no, they are lasers
inscribed in memory
of your face reflected lovingly
Gleaming back at  me

A thousand billion notes
chromatically they fling out
contrapuntal richochets
broken shards shimmy
Eyes of pearl tears and yearning
Video calls and FaceTime
Zero-sum meaning
Are those glances cast down
a carnival djinny-clown
A beautiful rictus
The denial licks us
the loss of self kicks us

You only want
what you see
You only love
who you used to be
and that makes me
insecure everywhere else

Time-keeper of my soul
Are you still in time
to see the rest of us
Standing here waiting
Loving you
Because of what you are
In spite of what
you and I have become
through the years

The Demigods of Circadia
universe Interrupted
Can you not see
the destruction
of the dusk
feel the utter lunacy
continuing adjacent
of smashed clock-hands
ground to a fine metal powder
intra-dimensional separation
inter-localities ignored
from dawn to dusk
in an endless loop
through decades
and suddenly
kilometers so far apart
they might as well
be light-years

Deity Terminus
Sordid self-absorbed
Oxygen-breathers
Can't grind things down
Into cosmic sand
That blows through
Eternity and beyond
Time-wasters
of mindless hopes
Vanquishers
of time and space
So beloved
most pungently
rafflesiacal
of blooms
O maniacal montage

O beloved Timekeeper
(and Madman with Daughter)
in our midst
Narcissus flowers three
This was a story
of filial piety
spanning the
dusk and dawn
of two centuries
And now

Angelus Terminus
You loom
over us all
A stopwatch
Most Jugular
In our midst
It will all end
when you do
the arterial jump
that binds
infinite combinations
of a calm peace

And then, silence



-Anne V (2019)




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