Monday, August 16, 2010

The Jester Speaks ... AGED 14

in one strange dream...


In one strange dream I saw you cry,
know I know I wonder why,
And when I ask you,
what is wrong?
you ask me,
what is right?’,
'Fore I can answer I’m swept along
by these words that you recite -

“Its as though all life on Earth
had only just begun,
as though a myriad of lights
combined to make just one,


it’s as though I’ve been passing through
athousand million places -
Behold! I will corrupt your seed
& spread dung upon your faces”

*

In one strange dream I saw you cry,
what is it that you need?
‘Fore I could e’en wonder why,
you began to read -

“I want to know, I want to see -
Everything, 
Nothing.

I want to have, 
I want to be -
Everything, 
Nothing.

But all I know and all I see
and all I have and have to be,
Someone,

Something.

Only occasionally, in strange dreams
do I witness these extremes,
 When I am all and all is me
then I’m not here so I can see
that I am dead and I am free,

So I can have and I can be,
Everything, 

Nothing.

 So I can know and I can see,
Everything, 

Nothing."

[1988, age 14]

Friday, August 13, 2010

SILENCED



silenced

dull void of sleep between the dreams
won't you swallow all my schemes
won't you let me come into  
  
your silence

*

I built a boast of reeds and birch
to sail into your church
won't you let me come into     

your fire


*

now my boats a burning bush
she softly whispers,
"...shhhhh...."

I'm silenced

*


Josh, 08/2010