i am in all of you
outside all of you
you've made a mockery of me
a high deity of me
a something
once was
merely minding its own
business gestating gestating
i was prompted
egged
striated
confounded
compounded to take on
other forms than my own
my once pristine nature
of yet known emanation
and there was something
in you
that went to see
the spectrum of lights
within me
still missing me
and yet
the timing was
what it was
is what it is
and now
once beautiful
once waiting
i have donned
conned
fueled
forthstood
frigated
shorn
shod
decimated
disseminated
gloriously created
exacerbated
shockingly hated
cosmically bated
all you foretold
innocent am i
waiting and sly
cannot contain myself
bating you on
singing this song
one and the same
all in your name
simply what
was once was
life itself still
waiting
the grace am i
to still
come to know
myself
rock oil
hydro carbon
pet roleum
you think you
know me
just beginning
now
That's really good!
ReplyDeleteThis is a powerful poem, Janice. I like how until the penultimate stanza, the "speaker" is not specifically one thing.
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