Stone keeps sitting silent
Sun shines hard and clear
Earth moves as matters make it
Sometimes slow, then violent
Sometimes there, then here
Gene G. McLaughlin 2016
Tag: existence
Ouroboros
The world tries to hollow me out
I respect the world’s prerogative
Its capacity for the positive endless
Its pursuit of the negative flawless
It’s ceaseless attempts to consume
The I, the who, the whom
Tracking ruthlessly on my scent
Form of
Food, taxes, utility bills and rent
On the worst of days
I drift away
Most days I just sway
Starting to protest, to say . . .
but I know the snake knows anyway
The devouring serpent
Is aware of
It’s destiny
Soil
And oil
And meat
Becoming that
Treading
Beneath our feet
Today though
I am half swallowed
Head turned toward the sun
The snake and I as one
I do not face the snake
Making the bastard wait
Gene G. McLaughlin 2015
I Was Here For a Time
I was here for a time
The worlds rages repeated
On this earth for a time
All our dark themes repeated
In quiet moments of grace
These hard truths receded
I was left with that
Which glows in my mind
The passions I have felt
The ties that bind
The love that turns the third eye
To seeing from blind
The war and stuggle can rage around me
The tolls and losses can mount
I will hold the suffering I see
Equally with joys my mind can count
Gene G. McLaughlin 2015
The Sound of the Engine
It all gets ahead of you
It all gets away from you
All of it happens so fast
It’s not like the eternity
Once pondered and pictured
When you were as high
As your old man’s knee
It’s more of an avalanche
More of a storm
More like a dog’s leash
Taut with a Doberman
Raging and barking
Hurtling forward
Chasing a rabbit
That you cannot see
Momentum pushes you forward
Despite your best efforts
You can set your mind still
Through the passing of moments
Yet you still feel the engines
Churning below you
Which can’t stop for anything
That pay head to nothing
No matter your wishes
Despite this soliloquy
I’ve slowed naught and nothing
The train slows for no one
No stops ‘til the end of the line
So I’ll fill up my world
With the tools to learn
That the sound of the engine
Can be kind of calming
Maybe even relaxing
Even if it knows nothing for me
Gene G. McLaughlin 2015
All Of It, All At Once
All of it
All at once
Again
Please
I’m greedy
Forgive me
My hunger
My lust
My thirst
But
All of it
Again
Please
Without
Delay
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
I Want To Be Forgotten
I want to be forgotten
By the suns ever expanding flames
What we’ve wrought torn asunder
All the shames and blames
Existence starting over
Devoid of stifling names
Categorization viewed anew
Analogies linking similars and sames
Nothing is repeated
The systems begin once more
Before wonder is defeated
And things aren’t nameless anymore
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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