The Eucharist of Samsara

The Earth drinks the blood

Eats the corporeal form

Incessant cycle

How High?

‘How high do your mighty walls go, good king’,

I had asked the king while passing him by,

‘Go see for yourself, boy, how high!’ And,

Hence I had climbed, just as he had asked,

Everything seemed clear by step 13,712,

Really I shouldn’t be asking how high, but why?

Crashing

I send the symbols crashing

Crashing in my head

I never want the release

I never want to be dead

The percussive thrashing

Sends wild thoughts flashing

Sends thoughts from pen

Into the permanence of paper

What I see

What I feel

It isn’t me

I swear

It isn’t difficult at all

To put the image on a page

To capture all the love

And let readers feel the rage

So they start to sprout

A whole world gushing out

The woes of fictional men

Caught in the fibers of the paper

And when I’m done

The chorus stops

But I never want the release

When the thought stops