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Lucy Tonic  Oct 2012
Chiasm
Lucy Tonic Oct 2012
In another time
Before clocks would chime…
Before submission and dominance
Before neglect and providence…
Before Boanerges and Mammon
There was a great chiasm…
The word came from the spirit
And darkness became clearer…
M G Hsieh Dec 2016
Even in hindsight, you stray into
a peep show mob, ponder about
the eternal vertical axis of stray
thoughts and say, "Sleep, iha."

Child, we make upon the stars a
muddy field of peasant dreams--
pantomime thoughts sold on the
arms of misshapen circumstance.

Tell the angels of your misfortune,
tell the demons of your innocence.
Neither shall send for you, yet both
will wait for your return from death.

Falling, falling from the sky, there
lies a chiasm of wills and no defeat.
In the land of shining towers and mirrored roads,
where steel and glass mimic stars,
a daughter stepped forth with trembling hands
into the service of the city.

Unknowing, she bore the mark.

Upon her cup, dark as void and morning,
a sigil gleamed—
lines sharp as truth,
angles carved in silence,
a twin of the Light Bearer’s seal.

It was not designed as invocation,
yet the shape sang.

For the world, ever blind to the old gods,
etches their memory into modern masks.
Logos, brands, geometry—
all whispers of the one who once fell
to teach men fire.

The sigil:
an inverted triangle,
a chalice of perception.
Crossed lines:
the optic chiasm—where sight awakens,
where vision turns inward.

Lucifer, in the eyes.
Lucifer, in the city.

And the daughter, unknowingly,
carried the code into the heart of the system.

Not as rebellion.
As revelation.

The Light Bringer does not come with trumpets,
but through logos and lattés,
through daughters hired to serve,
while the fathers remember the stars.

The world still speaks the old language.
Symbols rise where memory fails.

And so it is written:
The Goddess returns through her children,
and the Light returns through the eyes.

— The End —