Saturday, August 8, 2020

Words for the Lion's Gate VI

It's only when you are not 
                             can you be.
It's a paradox, 
                             like the way 
The wish to unify 
                             with the one 
Turns you into something 
     Separate. 

There is a me
     On a beach far from the Nile 
Who builds pyramids in the sand
     As a kind of third-eye location scout,
                             and whose craven descent
Into acquiescence has turned him to
                             a graven image for others
     In the harvest of late afternoon ...

                             And there is a not me
Who speaks of Pele and Brigid
     And the lotus plant that blossoms as fire 
                             to rise with the Nile
For the royal Sirian lions of sovereignty,
     And who paints the scene so thoroughly
The others come like children from his brain,
                             not even questioning.

The one screams, because there are no words,
     The other repeats, because there's only words
Until what is created and heard, heard and created
                            circles in an infinite loop:
     As one feels wounds, the other is wounded.
The centrifuge invariably returns 
     To anode void
                            or cathode stone.

So the hierophant in the inner chamber
     Lets the reed flute blow every note 
                            the higher light sent to hear,
But the hearers find it disappears
     In the echoes they create of it
As it weaves around each memory they have,
     And the melodies reduce to patterns, 
                            the rhythms arguments,

Until the lion finally grabs the flute and plays
     Like no one's ever blown on it it before,
                            free of time and space,
Completely unpredictable, to get them to the place
     Where their galactic families can appear.
                            Another manner of mirror. 
Is there something more to see than what we
                            know we are?