today

Is the blinking of your eye a greater task,

today?

Is it because the world is too much to take in,

today?

Is breathing ,is  walking, is the beating of a heart - 

the clockwork you forget about,

an unfailing companion from the start,

is the beating of your heart close enough

to ripple your jaw today?

They say the world will not end

with this and that,

not with failing the gargantuan examination,

not with the itch of predestined disease,

not when someone shakes you out of your delusion.

Heck, the world will not end

Even if you do.

But yours will.

What we grow from day to day

is not a new heart or younger eyelids,

We grow memories in the magnitude

that only memories can grow in.

And they become a mirror of

what we want

and what we want no more of

today. 

And only memories are visitors

when there will be no visitors tomorrow.

And when tomorrow will be the same as

today.

And beauty is and youth is

a scandal of 

today.

And if the look in someone's eyes

is bribe enough,

what you want is yet not

a memory.

Beauty will follow purpose,

and the time is

today.

On Religion

Place the lay monk in a room

full of earthen statues of men in prayer.

So that when he opens his eyes,

he finds mute reassertion.

And everytime he believes

that it is time to end a prayer,

He shames himself in the reproach of

a thousand glassy eyes raised heavenward.

And each time he places his folded hands

on the warm,thumping cloister under his robes,

To him,it reverberates in the chests

of the solid, cast men around him.

So that all his questions are answered in silence.

And any movement made by him,

driven by his own will,

is an act of infringement.

And so that his fear resides,

Not in forgetting the One

whose name he chants in cycles,

But in being seen when he does so.

good measure

Whoever it was that told you

it's worthwhile to dream of wings

has a stiff-necked, singular way

of looking at things.

There are beings that give up flying

to crawl on all sixes and fours

for wings are no good

when it's pouring outdoors.