poetry, zine (2021)

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destiny designed

words, ideas, thoughts
have become indistinguishable –
a hashtag portrays a litany of responses
the symbols captivate us,

hooked by an emotional patterning –

conditioned through personal history,
we are attached to these symbols as reality itself,
in response to a lethargic state of mind
used in the highs of caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, sugar..

providing peaks and troughs,
deregulating our processing speeds and neural interactions,

it is this intimate – physiological journey that has come to define our realities.

all become matter and circumstance,
an origin story relegated to inspid murmurings
pales in the petulant present

will our genesis be reimagined in this life time
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what will bring this line of questioning back into vogue
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the logistics encoded,
remain unjustly ignored
just enough,
we get by on limp understandings

without ever asking too many questions,
for to ask is to intend an outcome.

the soul languishes, without us fully realising it,
does linearity beseech violence
does it inherently arise within
the cost of a timeline of progression?

hazy may be the elicited path
but as each star comes closer into view,
we ponder ourselves a little bit clearer

as each epoch slips past
quelling our shadows with sincerity and focus

a witness bares reflection upon itself
and in that, who holds more power <?>
the memory,
or the observer

so that now, i must
seek renaissance through
vulnerability

as the steady gaze of the telepath
unwaveringly stares into your soul
the clues are mighty

it’s time