Malapropism

Be not a word that is almost this
Be the thing that is this
What nature intended you to be
What the universe sparked
And you will set the world on fire
Reach for the thing that calls to you
Misinterpreted not by what you
Thought it meant or mispronounced
Yourself to be but the thing that is
Craving for you to grab a hold of it
That’s the reason why you’re here

And when your make a promise to
Read one thousand books and you
Fail miserably

And when you make a promise to
Take a thousand steps around the
Mountains and you
Fail miserably

This is the misanthropic
This is the melancholic
This is the moment
A malapropism

Speak the word that you mean
Into life into the ground
Beneath your feet
And take heed

For the world as it is left turning
Will be what it is with or without you

The pandemic of life is to
Forget how to be the spark
You were intended to be and
To live without the fire
You were meant to burn

Pour the gasoline
Strike the match
Open the door
Lift the latch

Burn

© GÄ

Toward the Burn

Burning thoughts
Find you’ve forgotten
Find me ill trodden
A somber ritual
An out of shape catch
Unlikely pair
Can’t call
Even if we knew what to do
Teach me what is best
For this
Settle into the upheaval
Over and again
Afflicted shapes
Raw existence independent
Unlike the sea
An apparent relic
We are younger
Redorent consonance
Unearthly glimpses
Become fragments
Of what might have been
Opening the door for another
What could be
Centuries moving
I picked visitation
Cheerless churnings
Thoughts a burning
Unforgotten though
Down trodden
Acceptance dissipates abyss
Screaming cats
Will pray for rain
Some cry for sullen knowledge
Eliminates the game
The earth is filled
With love
A bird flies through
The flames into above

© GÄ