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Sunday, May 12, 2013

the involuntary work of the exiled * 5/12/13


Barred from expectation's homeland,
cut out from familiarity's heart
as an option to respond,
voided from all exterior confirmation,
the orphan's empowerment                                                                            
is in the expanse of emptiness
and imagined rejection
strengthened by travail.
Abandonment spawns
the sweeping efforts towards search,
redirected in scope and ardor
by mystical enterprise.
The possession of unique powers
by unusual means as mediums
of the contradictions,
have parented the way.
Circumstances conveyed lessons
into character.
First impression oppositions became
the endearment of friendship.
Opportunity is blindly knighting
the far-reaching-ness of all things.
All thorns became unsolicited mentors
of encouragement.
The blood is transformed
as the self-chalice is transforming.
There is no death of significance
to undermine the yearning.
The unwanted-ness
makes for an intimacy
of a vaster space.
No one is afforded the opportunity
to help in a kindly way.
All props of representation
are lame and askew.
All symbols of self
are confusing to everyone.
All imperfections,
as others would claim perception,
are rejected.
The belonging never ceases
to be destroyed by further acquisition.
And sorrow becomes the consort
filling breath with solemnity.
Hurt becomes the skeletal firewood
supporting an inward blaze.
Creativity becomes a form
of isolation's prayer.
Bazaar elements commonplace
what others ignored.
Sacrifice has no properties
of self-imposition.
The martyr appears
as if by invitation.                                                                                    
If all goes well,      
this never ending dies
into the arms
of a new beginning . . .

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