Black dog blue
I am tired
You son of sickness
Why you hound me so
Noonday demon
I am faded
You priest of bleakness
How within me you do grow
Darkness visible
I see you clearly
Please stop asking
That which you already know
Sunlight blazing
I feel your blessing burning
I pray you help me
This interloper must go
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
Month: October 2017
I and Thou
Want is the shackle of meaning
Disassociation the denier of art
Awareness the being of feeling
Acknowledgement of I as a relational part
Air and ether and cosmos
The other and fires and sprawl
God is ever present within us
The sum and total of all
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
Inspired by Gord Downie’s final record Introduce Yourself
The Burning Covenant
Do you fear it?
What breathes beyond this world’s veil
Do you think of it?
Or are thoughts of it beyond the pale?
Do you have love for it?
The actions and movements of your life
Are you at peace with it?
Or does considering it cause you strife
Will you pray for me?
In those moments when you do
Will I reciprocate?
This I wish to do for you
If the bullets fly
Will you hold my hand?
If the rains wash us away
Can we drag each other to land?
Will you remember my name?
When you slowly come awake
You say you wish to start anew?
I give you my name and heart to take
Let us come to new terms
Define ourselves in different ways
Let us make a new covenant
And set the long broken one ablaze
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
The Sprawl
When God looked outside himself
He did not see love hate
Water fire sulfur salt
He saw possibility
In all its infinite glory
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
Fluctus Virtus Defluxit
Rome had elements
We now call by different names
We judge them harshly
Assigning their actions blame
Are the sounds of Nero’s fiddle
And strikes of the golf ball the same?
Gene G. McLaughlin 2017
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