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Liberation of Imagination, Portal, Voice Coming, I Pray, Pass or Fail
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Liberation of Imagination, Portal, Voice Coming, I Pray, Pass or Fail

Observation Deck: Poetic Series
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Liberation of Imagination

Inside shared skin the night is awake, the rivers curve and the hills roll in, we’re laughing as the light rain textures our hair, we’re running with the pack against nodding emerald grasslands.

Everything is deep strings, winding quartets, glistening like diamonds in our eyes from our lips to the sea.

There’s something magical about this love, this union, this family, this land, this dream. My soul enchants my veins luminous.

I can let go when she speaks with wildered joy and dancing feet.

Beneath my toes, the soil is drumming. I can taste creation. The heat in my body centers, then release. Flows into rhythm, harnessing the wisdom of many suns ago, re-layering our earth for the second symphony.

So the song begins.

Inspired from a dream - Melody Aminian

Portal

I know you’ve tired

of contention

and confusion

Now you come seeking shelter

in something greater

One touch, I become your

portal to promiselands

This was the assignment

But I too am tiring

Only music can quicken

the fatigue of my fatalities

One choir, can you be my peace?

When there’s no direction

and the haze is thick

I turn within

Devotionals of deep sighs

and silent eyes

Kneel me down to hear

reverberations of cells

Potential of life

Will I take it there?

Into existence.

Voice coming

Clawing the dirt.

giving in.

unearthing Her.

renounced.

over-possessed.

Voice coming.

becoming Her.

I Pray

Everyday I pray

Not to any god or idol

I pray to be

Worthy of the muses

That I become as

I was meant for

That my task is

Undertaking

My words initiating

My body connecting

My heart threading

That my life has

Spoken to the

Volume it should

Every moment

I pray I am worthy

Of the muses

Pass or Fail

Pain comes for me this morning and stays in the evening, the slow ache of dying, but no death (no peace).

Canceling my plans. Losing my focus. Paralyzing my body. Wasting my hours. Distracting my purpose. The torture of dying, but no death.

Who knows how it’s triggered? It’s a relentless, cryptic demon who screams inside my clenched teeth. Conquered by loops, I waste. Mazed.

Dark in the day. Revealing in shadows. Stretching towards me.

Will I spend eternity dying or will I prevail in health? What is it that will make me stronger? Lighter? Euphoric?

Who decides? Pass or fail.

These last thoughts, I ponder for myself.

It’s easy to feel. It’s easy to write these words. Can eloquence of self be an exchange for wealth? Will it steed my prophecy?

There’s no assured self left to borrow. I’ll have to compose myself.

But I’m sick and I need your chalice to shift the power. Bring my words to brothing water. Loosen my throat.

Mend it and begin the song. Provide the theater of life’s motifs.

Would I live by my desire? Will I hear them drum?

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