Once again
have I come to bear witness
To the fickle hearts of mankind
Once again
have I come to realize
That the waxing and waning
Of our chosen loyalties
Are like houses of straw
To be toppled
by word of mouth
By a mere breath,
a mere sigh
Once again do I come to recognize
The parable of building one’s house on sand
Or on the eternal stone
For that love that transcends time
Also transcends
its tendencies towards erosion
So,
once again,
Does serpent
Bound by earth
Turn into eagle,
To transcend
this vessel.
For the macrocosm beckons me
And always has beckoned me.
I will venture to the mount
And shed the flesh
To be infused by starlight
And share it with mankind.
I recognize the chains I wear
And I recognize charred flesh has
healed over them
But no matter how stuck they are
We are not one
And I will peel them off
And I will bear the associated agonies
For my heart leaps for the celestials
It will leap through my chest
Ripping off the chains
And my skin with it
THE CLOSET MYSTIC 