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Dan Hess Sep 2019
I’m learning that in order to disconnect from my ego, I have to accept it. I’ve always wanted to be this philosophical, poetic person who seeks enlightenment, but I’m not a philosophy. I’m still a person. I like to fool myself into thinking there is no self, but there is, it’s just in flux. The self is like a cork board full of pins and art pieces. The ego likes to think the things that are on the board are the self, but it’s fooling the self in doing so. The self just retains the images. The images just represent the self. Sure, the pushpins leave a mark that may never come out, and arguably the things they support leave a bigger mark when they’re hanging up there, but they can change. There’s only enough space for so much.
The ego draws the self portrait and says “That’s me” but the self knows it’s just a picture. It won’t be the same in ten years as it is now, but, there will still be remnants of the past that have stayed along for the ride.
Dan Hess Aug 2019
Whose ever musing beauty should refrain
To tantamount endurance of lament
When every mounting truth begets in vain
To all but fleeting, ignorant dissent
As promises romantically inclined
Should shower vagrant starlight on your face
But ever shake the beauty of the mind
To flay itself to fortune in disgrace
I chased a home in something never bound
And lost myself to hang upon the hour
I forced my hand to choke when you’re around
To girdle and bestow a broken flower
Yet in the light of new day I attest
That grandeur can be found in simpler things
For at effulgent love’s newfound behest
By synergy, felicity it brings
Dan Hess Aug 2019
Something ineffable;
the droves of life
denied in splendor
to the mind

Something perplexing
a vexing muse of
reality
infused with abnormality

That absurd thing
we call the soul
ever whispers
even in its screams
we behold

Questions fledging
answers swarm
to ride on seraph’s wings
above the storm

Never being
erred, and e’er become
All but streaming
fleeing, gleamed in
growth, amidst hope
with such aplomb

We are meant
in the meaningless
Squandered passions
roused ambivalence

In freedom
we are lost
Untethered from truth
As we amass the idle questioning
Formed in what makes us
Aloof

What does it mean
to be
human?

Monstrous indulgences
of wandering in abundance
seeking shelter
in the wholeness
of fulfillment

Yet
We are ever empty
Never fully

We
Dan Hess Aug 2019
The earth is never still
torrential momentum
can you feel it too?
The way the universe moves in pivots
on clockwork, centripetal lensing

Locked upon the surface, inert
Stagnant never stopping
Living in transitions
I am
Expeditious

If I were cast
into the void of nought
to sit in stillness
would Time shift
to a grinding halt?

Would the gears of reality
befall me
as I am consumed
into the fleeting rescendance?

Light-speed is dark
color blurs, and lines of stars
are not but imagery
when nothing can reach a mass
which tears itself from gravity
unmoving

If I were to melt
into time itself
becoming spaghettified
energetic, formless
would’st petrificatiON
arise belied to existence?

Could, then, I be
without me
without freeform, broken
penchant

Time shifts in days on
Ever standing in coagulant collision
Universal
Rot

Many dimensions intersect us
Poking through the perforations
Of the quantum flux

And soulbound to the collective
Is the suspended intervision

I am introspect, delicate derelict
A piece of self, its own
Unknown to space’s haste
A purer nothing

Then pop!
Come I, again, to being
To become undone by tunneling
Through infinitesimal
Again, herein
The fabrix of
what Matters
Dan Hess Aug 2019
Energies compounding
From base to crown resounding
That which grasps eternity abounding
As points upon the spine make raise to founding
In the manifest of magick

Ensorcelled by the whims of one’s intention
To form from what’s suspended, predilection
Make thralls as growth enlivened by affection
Coursing freely into frames betwixt within

Tis the catalyst of dreams
The ether streams
Which called upon, should gleam into the extant

Qi formed from the vortexes of multitude;
of coalescent pools
of extradimensional splendor
Whence all as one is fragmented
to individual endeavor

To call upon the forces of the soul
Amass a spectacle of power everflowing
To command the wealth of all abundance in the throes
Of what becomes you

Insight and true elation
In spiritual hibernation
To bloom, consumed in new beginnings
As a sage of magix brimming

The ought and oft surrendered unto happenstance
Unbound to choice wherein all falls to chance
To be in bliss, and pierce the veil with light as lance
As magick is what holds me
I am supported on the all begotten energies
of spiritual transcendence
Dan Hess Aug 2019
Can calamity turn to serendipity?
As all should happen with a reason,
could the turnings’f fate
be brought about
to conquer inner demons?

Might we rise, unbound,
in freedom,
as phoenix from ash?

Could inner fire be quashed
to be rekindled?
Are not we unbridled by chance?

Are we yet lost but found
again in our advance?

Where first to swim 
in drifts ‘n dregs, as drags 
of denser things 
should hold fast 
our frail bodies, 
thereupon the first breath 
of earth’s clean air 
are we alight, 
and therein-lightened. 

To start a walk upon new legs,
evolved to live on land
in vague untempered
night and day;
to sleep beneath the stars
and lay away in homes so vast;
so ever layered.

Then should we climb
upon the freest heights,
and rise no further, lest we fly?

Then should we take to falling
just the same, to catch a breeze
and drift away?
Dan Hess Aug 2019
Finite infinities exist behind the eyes
Pulling me deeper into the contrasting dark and light
As surrounding me is color

The tantalizing dissimilation of photons which assume their impartations
Thereupon the internal vision
Unforming into universes shifting
Within matrices of information
To which I will embark

A captive castaway upon a sea of dreams
Adjourning unto thine effloresent identity
Which flees to the shrouded depths
In oceans of emotions in the subconscious inter-mesh
Ever strewn astray am I, within the soul's abode
In hopes of finding, therein, the flame of you
Lost in your eyes
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