Monday 2 October 2017

Monotheism:

Monotheism:

Imagine sitting at the ocean's edge,
the beach, pebbles rather than sand
(the better for effect); you stare
at the waves as they, like gay children, run forth
match your breath, the expansion, recession of your lungs —
a union without touching.

Imagine climbing a tree
and sitting on the thin branch,
feeling it creak beneath your weight
yet holding you up
so you can see into a distance as far away
as childhood.

Imagine finding the cave
and in the darkness
listening to the drip...drip...drip...from stalactites —
lime’s heartbeat, accumulating in spires
both up and down —
teeth for eating air and nightmares.

Imagine the ocean, the tree, the cave
and you
experiencing moments of stillness, of wonder,
of belonging, without the need for a blood connection
and explain how we can forget
and rend the earth as if the other-worlds
have never existed —
some blame the devil
or greed
or a longing to return to the mother's cave,
perch in the mother's branch,
hear the mother's ocean within the safe zone —

not me though —
I blame a God
so needy It/He/She must deny the existence
of everything —


even It/His/Herself.

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