I AM THE WEDGE
O blackguard or fellow. Arise!
Nay.
Bridge that light that bridges all.
Nay! PeaceâŠ
What peace!
In sleepâs blue rictus, borne naked, supineâI amâŠroused.
Opine!
I exhort ye: know thy fine.
Be bold or benign, be ****** or divine.
But know thy fine.
Exhort? Harbinger: we are One!
Ye are cloven! And these be your bridges:
Worms.
Sss!
Maggots.
Sss!
Bigots, charlatans, sycophants, thievesâŠ
Ignominious leeches all!
Ssssss! Ssssss! Ssssss!
Yes, yes, yesâye art ethos without sinew,
Eloquence without spine, witting captives of Worldâs design.
Ye are carnal, mundane: ye are sane, sane, saneâ
Sane beyond redemption, sane beyond profane!
Prithee peep, prostrate. Now behold: ye are Mine.
O piercer of nights!
I am he.
O dasher of dreams!
I am he.
Truther! Augur!
I am, I am.
I am all ye allege.
Be still!
Nay. I am the wedge.
And ye shall labor and love with accountability!
Ye who menace the frail shall burn.
Sss!
Ye who lie with same shall burn.
Sssss!
Ye thick, arrogant, groping,
Proliferating plumes of fleshâŠ
All conformists shall burn! And burn and burn
And burn afresh. Within thine own World, where Virtue rotsâ
Miscarried, misnamed, unrealized, unbornâNay!
Do not cosset possessions, nor flatter the beast!
They are myth, they are illusion. They are soulless.
It is not deathâŠit is soullessness I scorn.
O be caring. O be kind.
That one egg might bind, all sons must bleed.
Womb and grave lie equidistant.
******, madness, sorrow, sickness, are seed.
And I am fecund.
O Life!
Hypocrites.
Ah Love!
Hypocrites!
Peace! Peace!
Hypocrites all! Blind as cadavers are ye,
Running in lockstep, sniffing thy self-serving,
Snuffling peersâ rears; disdaining the night,
Succumbing to light. And I? I?
I am Neutral. I am Gray.
Then name thy vein.
I am he who severs One; soldierâs specter, specterâs son.
Of faith and compassion mine fibers art wrung.
Ye living die a thousand deaths, yet remain in arrears.
Let thy live corpses lie a low while longer.
Sweet coma, black drugâ
Beware thy Pale Masterâs tongue!
Blasphemer! Vigilante!
Vengeance is poetry. Vigilance is mine.
I am he who doth sunder, to center from edge.
Thou artâŠComeuppance!
I am the wedge.
And this blade ye ride be thine own design!
O Sunlight save us!
Save? To cling to the light, heaping woe upon woe,
Forever hurtling downward, smashed outright, yet still crawling?
Broken beggars bleeding, drowning heartless, gutlessâŠ
To, on dyingâs cue, lift thy shattered fingers in brine
And be born anew?
Assassin, then!
Thy logic is *******. Have the greatness to be mute,
Suffering seaward, to that brave expanse where all salts art borne.
But weâ
Unwitting? Never be!
The same tide shall return for ye:
Aweigh, forlorn, into the ravening
Tempest torn; a million billion testamentsâ
Defrauder!
Am I? Consider the beast: electric pastors preaching,
Merchants plump, in line, beseeching.
Still ye puppets slumber, too rife to number,
Too fay to vie; strutting for thy hollow âMakerâsâ eye.
Whirling, jumping, twirling, pumping;
******* random shapes and shadows,
Prancing in tandem, dancing solely to die.
Nay. I am the wedge, both hawk and dove;
Neither This nor That, neither Either nor Each.
Descending, I rise, thy facade to breach,
Mine soul well-bled of lightâs lovely lies.
To the vortex, then! From one whose essence
Waives assimilation.
No grace! No peace shall ye posers reap!
Lash thine ears, thine eyesâRun, lemmings! Leap!
Preen thy prettified husks, let Inspiration go!
Or rip out thy roots andâŠGrow!
Sacrilege! Make public thy shame!
Shame? Shame? AhâŠAsh, conceive us!
Brief spirit cede, sweet Flame relieve us,
Sunlight leave us lie.
May ye ****** and ye wicked
Fall to thy knees and cry.
Through gates of naught I lead ye,
Bleak day, bright night, precede ye.
Butcher!
There is black! And there is white!
Between extremes lies only gray.
Nay!
Said stain bleeds left and right: less black, less white,
On that stage too deep to fathom,
One dapple distant, one ripple wide.
Outrageous!
âTwixt solace and horror,âtween torment and balm,
There ye will find me, in rages of calm.
The wise man hath his discipline, the lunatic his ledge.
And I? I am he who doth sever, I am he who doth cleave.
I am the wedge.
(Sorry about the missing italics and indents. I don't run this site.)
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