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I've learned an ancient secret
with you I cannot share
for this secret's so untrue
but of this I'm unaware

 

The Insane Poet

from an institution a scream
cries for a revolution,
a fallen mind's contribution.

yes, a breath I have spoke before,
but if then a fallen mind
may I ask- what is now rendered?

I hear the call of withered will
from the cellar I hear weeping,
scarcely a frustrated yell.

the persecuting empathy
upon feeble legs the burden;
but what of pain, may we learn?

but there is not to be reason!
merely false axioms,
creative neglectful wisdom,

volition of intention,
dreams of relative perception.
ah, the placating utterance,

the curse of self importance.
belief, another condition,
heed thus a divine volition.

now to interposing the creed-
to speak of the lives I will save,
those taken in my name!

I incessantly battle truth!
I shall condemn opposition!
but I shall condemn no person?

may I question causality?
yes, to realize I am nothing.
to digress from this a mental death.

thus speaks the insane poet...

 

a walk in the rain, such peace I obtain:

I jump and wave in oddning guise
unto a man who can not see,
but many others passing by
wave unto, though never she.
she passes, sweetly,
as the birds who fly discretely.

I enter thru the edifice
the edifying slur,
sylphonic greetings float along
arriving thus as words.
I imbibe the syllables
again they dissipate,
twisting, undeciphered,
intoxicating the brain.
I to sit befuddled
behind a wall, a glass.
marbles role in kindness
I flutter she to pass.
foolish, quixotic,
a difference embraced,
mingling, intervening,
so much differentiates.

 

 

Augustine