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As You Are (Sestina) by MacFrantic
I am no poet; I hope that is completely clear to the critics and masses
This faulty abstraction is a cover: a manifestation of the iniquitous
wit
Without a doubt, it remains evidence of my fraudulent venture as being
Vindication of a sad soul relieves it no less from a heavy heart
Or a wrenching ache, for mine is none different than the beating
humanity
Ever toiling its essence away into a pool of raw, fevered ambition
I am no bird; my wings were lost in the overwhelming surge of humanity
A weakness that burdened us without regard for preservation of being
Times over the sun set and the reddened sky halted my ambition
No religion could sway me, sway us to live without reason or guilt or
wit
Alone we are never birds, but a flock enticed is in truth the honest
masses
Time tells and tolls the artist: he is the overtone of the people; he is
the heart
I am no gentleman; as I walk to my dresser I am filled with foreign
ambition
Today I will wear a coat, a tie with stripes, and a pin in the shape of
a heart
Without a second thought, I read through the Times and pity the masses
As I drive to my job, as I walk to my chore, and as I toil at my
humanity
The funniest thought gusts through my head; I continue doing and I keep
being
By the end of the day the day has ended and the day has drained my wit
I am no hero; when I breathe the air that you have poisoned, it pierces
my heart
Before this crisis of indemnity evolves, hide your woes beneath a canvas
of wit
Laugh about profound and newfound inhibitions, but do not question my
humanity
Striding through our homes is a sloth silence: creeping faintheartedness
among the masses
Fate has lifted our love to a new plane, above curiosity and ambition
Life is now a greatly dreaded thing; it is a caustic ache to the ever-
present being
I am no killer; the wrongly deserved of death are by my hand never
robbed of wit
The days may be long but always longer are the nights so fervent with
ambition
Gaunt spirits haunt our dreams, and they will not be stifled or denied
their being
So where are these killers, whose fears are plenty, which bleed from an
obsidian heart
Released into words they stalk and devour us in numbers, a plague upon
humanity
In accord with the beast and the devil we are, a single voice of the
masses
I am no one; I must now annex wings through a unique flawlessness of
being
Utter invalidation before us: the ruin of the serpentine body of the
relentless masses
Scattered reminders whispered revealing fallacies regarding the pristine
heart
Soiling the surface of a newly distinguished apparition, however devoid
of humanity
No faces and no minds inflict this memory upon us: it is purely of
impartial wit
Livid are the oceans, boiling with acrimony, unsettled at our material
ambition
I am no beggar; I've no intention of hailing forth the windblown masses
I am no saint; never have I assumed certainty as a savior of humanity
For I am no body any longer, only a shadow of a future being
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