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Bird Songs

Everyday I am born to gods relaying

lineage through winged messengers.

****** radiance enkindles immaculate retinas

in solar flares

and picturesque mornings' idolatry.

Tones entrancing, blue jays

or northwest mockingbirds,

their range of majestic differences

eluding attentive innocence,

elation ebbs to pain's perpetual flow,

streaming hypno-suggestive claims

finding me inexorable

to beliefs I've not died.

Impassioned voices usher me through,

by mid-day I've learned

to speak their tongues,

strange hisses

and twisting trebles

an attempted appeasement for

conforming to continued cyclical living,

instinct selection seeking final detention,

rebirth a trapped evolutionary trait.

Dreading each twilight,

coping through whichever maiden

may allow my musings

to conform to her form

for the night,

overlapping until I

am but a shadow

dominated by her presence,

her brilliance illuminating every scar

of the side perpetually left

to the dark,

enlightenment held

in the warmth of her touch

until she too

falls beneath the horizon.

Sun setting upon this silhouette

and whispering tomorrow

in stagnant sleep speak,

settling to sacrifice's sufficience.

I fear this rest.

Gleaning premise from barbaric genealogy

qualitated as residual spatial pandemic,

leaving this life cycle

reduced to just one more death.

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Oct 21, 2012
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