Thread: The Pit
View Single Post
Old 10-13-2019, 10:22 PM   #1
Level 12 - Scurrilous
 
reign3's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The Battle Ground
Posts: 4,368
Bincount™: 773
The Pit

They speak of my heart as if
It were a mythic beast.
Shrouded in woods and puzzled over
By numeric values and constellations.
Don’t look to the sky, I say.
Look me in my eye and see yourself,
Yourself in my eye and then we can all
Understand.
Let us gamble on the language of angels;
For I believe the dead know the secrets
Of life.
My heart may seem mysterious but it is not,
Nor is it small,
Large things can, in fact, be occulted
From inquiring eyes.
I’d wager you’d miss an earthquake
Were it to always be rumbling,
Constant and droning, grinding
Your bones to dust and pleasure.
But I am not special, nor is
My pit worthy of great adventure.
It is there, plainly, as any fruit.
And that is the great beauty
Of this exercise,
And of lessons
All ought to learn.
__________________
Yar
OFFLINE |   Reply With Quote