Shadows On The Wall (+1)

How do we profess

what we can’t understand

 

The very nature of this

takes on certain demands

 

If it’s truly beyond

our ability to know

 

Something deeper is calling,

where thought cannot go

 

These walls that surround us,

this cave that we’re in

 

False images dance,

Plato’s fire burns thin

 

To truly cross over,

breaking free of its chains

 

We must turn our eyes inward

—to release and proclaim

 

(The Book Of Prayers: November, 2020)

 

 

Non Visceralis

 

Knowledge is not a paradigm,

but a bridge to something else

 

Its path to stay unmeasured,

when crossing into self

 

Devoid of polar opposites,

where beauty exits truth

 

To steal away, a soul relayed

—its burden stripped of proof

 

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: November, 2020)