Kit Kelen #981 - Jerusalem Waterfall

981

Jerusalem Waterfall

draft of title poem

the Waterfall Effect is where, from staring into falling water, one begins to see the wall next to the water rise

Jerusalem Syndrome is a religious mania that overtakes a small but steady number of visitors to Jerusalem, making each believe that he (sic.) is the Messiah

(in a promised land)

it takes time to fix the eye

you have to have a heart for it

torn and bleeding still

with feet in days of old

it happens in a house of clocks

it's all done with a mirror

this is a desert place

there might be dragons

no one in their right mind would be here

those, the others, are already damned

there isn't much difference to make

it's up to us to keep them out

the means at our disposal

strew fronds

haul in the fish

make dove

whittle out a state of grace

God's writing's smaller than you see

is it time that we watch flow?

there's more of it than water here

and we're across the river

we're the parted sea

so far from who we were

and yet still foretold

when you're quite sure

only you can tell the truth

you'll see the wall go up