Friday, August 7, 2020

Words for the Lion's Gate V

I suppose you'd want, right about now
                                                an example?
There's one right above
                                                comes to mind:
How the hieroglyphs said
                       it was the sun 
                                               that was worshiped
And it went down like an ancient game
                       of telephone
To the Babel of Religions we know
                                               and don't understand
                       today ...

When, in fact, the sun worships us! For we are
      The makers of sense,
                                              the keepers of law,
The consciousness of life,
                                              who still stayed
Like sprouts inside a jar, within the parameters
                      of the small.
How could light be denied
                                              to such souls,
How could the flow back and forth be disputed?
One keels, the other tacks, one energizes backs,
     One digs in dirt to plant—

Thus Homo luminous becomes love,
                                             growing wings
                      at each abyss he is connecting
In a tapestry that shines in the sun
     As an offering of what
                                             came from him.
But the sun has someone else,
     The blue Sirian
                       known by Alexandrian priests.
He leaves us with the moon
     So we may know him by his absence,
                      unrepentant darkness.

The lion, bored with explanation,
                      has slept all day
                                             in golden light,
Gaining life as he
                      became illuminated.
     He will come out at night
                                             so we'll know
Things are there
                      even if they can't be seen,
Like the galaxies that pour
                                             new ambrosia
                      in our souls.