God’s Skin

Can there be freedom from the me?

photo of Rheinaue Park, Bonn, by A.B. Godfreed

LOSS

freedom has lost
its meaning
there’s disorder, division,
dastardly doubts and deeds
exist within
me|you — us|them
stuck in our many urges
desires
addictions for violence, sex, pleasure
decadence
all cloaked in proliferating permutations
of pious pretensions
such mystical absurdities

without this image
what are you
afraid of being
no — thing

DEATH

everything hangs in
no balance
uncertainty
no — thing is a plan
in the throes
of this
dying
d
y
s
t
o
p
i
a
down 2 dust
ashes
w/ no phoenix yet
in flight