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(A)Gnostic (Free verse) by Nicholas Jones
Failing eyes, and more senses become lost
Lines into whiteness of a person cut off.
Leaving behind my intent to deceive,
Time to restate some things I believe:
Myopic eyes
Transmit only blurs
Without aid.
I cannot tell if they have intent to deceive,
But Iâm already bored of stating things I believe.
Because they
Lead you nowhere
Nothing here but
Lines through whiteness.
That lead nowhere,
Only here where
I cannot stay:
Burning eyes, my life has become lost
Forced into firelight through theories of cost.
We all reserve the right to deceive,
I wish I could know that I do not believe.
More sense
Of being lost,
I used believe in nothing
And then construct things
To believe.
But then mistrust them
Because they
are constructs.
But everything
is a construct
I know this because
I have read it
In books by people
cleverer than me.
Who spend their days in scholarship
and never watch bullshit on TV
We laughed but
didnât understand.
We read until our eyes
stopped. Cut off.
Only white lines now:
Failed eyes, all senses now are lost.
Lines into whiteness from you are cut off.
I confess I had only intent to deceive.
Trying to remember if I ever believed.
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