The Fading of Green
It occurs when
the mind is still
and the eyes become
transfixed...
on lessons much
more important
than mere aging.
It happens if
the conditions
in which becoming
naked again
will not
escape our
naked attention.
Only what
you bring
to it will
bleed and follow through;
for with the fading of green,
what changes
most is you.
We view us
in a mirror
dimly lit.
Plumes of smoke
surround our sights to see.
In poverty, I come.
In poverty, I see.
In poverty, I become.
In poverty, I become seen.
I am seen,
not for that which
has corroded me,
but for all that
erodes my
shameful, shaming
shames.
No more names.
Let's drift away,
together,
in that sense
of shameless unity-
of profundity.
Of, to them, profanity.
From profane to great,
only we will be seen
in the dimly lit mirror,
on pages written once,
through the aging of our bodies...
in the fading of green.
(And we will truly be seen.)
Jfw
2018-10-10 03:40:43
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