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the prodigal

belie the notion that one is complete

uncompromised, unmodified,

in thought and in motion.

as we reenact and memoralialize

ourselves with our past and

our wholesomeness of ego

we walk towards a chasm

of chaotic disruption

put there by our inner consciousness

as we progress we are

filled with trepidation,

avoidance and reticence

our thoughts

sidling around the task at hand

procrastination taking its cold grasp

upon our reasoning

our forward compelling movements

appear unnatural and stilted

as we slowly progress

our inner bearing pretentious

all thought and motion merged into

a lifetime of physical mental torture

a prison of our own making

so who in this blinding darkness

dares to step forward into

the unknown future that we have

woven for ourselves with the strips

of blue and crimson flesh we have flayed from

our own portals entwined

into the tapestry that depicts the epic battle

that we have fought and won over time immeasurable

who will take the double edged sword from

the lady in the lake and strike it once again

into the backbone of our mother

where we will lay cradled against her bosum

till she weans us from her suptle breast

and sends us once again to do her bidding

without our capacity for love

our understanding and compassion are

tools we still have yet to master

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May 3, 2010
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