Friday, August 23, 2019

Kit Kelen #1331 - every Bible is subtly different

1331
every Bible is subtly different

for godsbother


someone lives in there
carries the tune like a roof overhead

a bearded vengeance
shrill regret
time is its own terror
all over the shop inside
I like golden

and love!
no one can remember the turns
how we dreamt and held
dreamt some more

often lost, forsaken

some are climb down from the family tree

then there are the voices of birds

many are the conquests
villages razed
the kids enslaved

false idols
will you worship me?

our enemies spring up
there’s no imagining them
good for a footstool

stiffnecked
drop a few tablets
all magic to the melody
little angels are

here’s one spruiking the good news
and just for you this time – watch out!

I like the children’s brimstone and fire
cosy up with a vengeance
sweet dreams like a ladder
run up and down

let’s shall we take a peak
glass darkly

commandments from a mountain
prophecies pale thin air
yes, all the while a future guessed
and now the future’s come
recalibrate expectations

a church can be the book as well
done up in all the scenes
pulpit drones by, you’re away

ashes, dust, scabs, plagues assorted
winds you wouldn’t believe?
well, here’s what you get

once we were the smoke through the trees
all the one tribe

full of years
through ghastly dark
sun rises, goes down
and bottle green often
we see through the corpse light

no one lives in a museum
we till and the day goes under
so many inhabit the book
it’s where the ghosts have given up

perhaps you have flown before?
been saved?
resigned yourself to it?

this particular Earth is all stigmata
there is nowhere beyond the smoke of our trees
the first and the last
and come again?

we battle the bitterness
just to be ourselves
and by the book

how’s ours today?

it’s all the evil could ever be
just a manner of saying

thank God for God
but just one
a costume party

nothing is sacred in here


1 comment:

  1. this a truly lucid stroll ... where ghosts have given up (bravos ring) - can't wait for the opera!

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