Since I have the honor of being invited into this room,

then I want to say what needs to be said, 

For the living and the dead. 

There is a cloud of witnesses who cry out from the past, 

who call us from what lacks,

Like mercy, sweet ever-loving mercy. 

This morning when I walked outside, I think I expected to immediately see someone right away who had been impacted by the crash, but I couldn’t see at all…

Father, father
Be my ordinary…

Thunderous and tremendous it cries out,

“You are a mortal being”

Soundlessly and brilliantly, we are aware of the fact…

Eyes shining like a marble

And a surprising turn of a smile

My favorite part was the way that they would let the tears run down their cheeks

Culture is not at war

War is within us

I wish

I wish my ego was more of a balanced companion

That it felt more temporary, less like an anthem

May offense, spite, anger and the drawing in and circling around of pain be silenced.

May the sickness of our spirit that yells, “now” and “more” be muted.

May you hear it gasp and not chase it.

your eyes look fresh

halting me, how so?

like new

what of my old ones?

It is a convenient view of righteous morality for all opposing ideas to be locked into a

box labeled, “evil”

Clinging to those who agree or affirm my position

Sitting, looking, dreaming as I gazed into the beyond.

Subtle was the feeling that the things I saw would never make me full.

Words matter

as matter of

fact

“Son your faith has healed you,

Go in peace and be freed from your suffering”

…is what I heard

I've been here before

In this room

you critiqued my critique

of a dead white man's societal critique

to who you are,

from where i am

i have only one response to your reply

To the school of poets

who failed to pay attention.

My wishes of transcending I will try to mention.

When I used to lie beneath the sun,

and contemplate the span of the daisies

I would, without exception, become trapped in my own mind

Tinted Son glares blind utterable sight

my vision is yet unseen,

but surely known,

as i am created across the clouds and sky