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)