Friday, May 26, 2017

The Spirit Vacuum

Grail Maiden: Public Domain Image by Arthur Rackham

Exploitive conceptualization spurned the many,
and molded clay crystallized
one’s internalized role in obscuring truth
into illuminations on one’s existence
Borne witness to
blood on the altar, in rapture
subject to confirmation bias

Remember when we wondered astray?
From stately sanctuaries, ominously hanging crosses
symmetrical in third dimensions,
past the rooms where we avoided Sunday School,
and fellowship hall with checkered tile floors,
dodging old men in suits while displaying
fundamental forms of delinquency, foreshadowing
re-examinations and unwelcome assertions

Senses of obligation and duty, under development
disrupted – remained unengaged,
yet instinctually ingrained with rusted-out relics,
unfulfilled yet colored through the prism
of their projected worldview,
into the spirit vacuum,
born of isolation, inoculation, or indoctrination

Enlightenment grew to be formless and prescient –  beyond
its call and spurning commonly identifiable text,
unmotivated and unmoved, redefined
into chasms revealed beyond comfort or convenience
A trace beyond deliberate, unveiling like nature
reclaiming its basis over severing generations
in guided engagement,
offering virtual telepathy unwarranted,
revealing ranges of emotion in sound
unparalleled within the depths of its grooves,
coming to refine this presence without attempting to corral an origin

Matt Mauldin
5/2017
Santa Barbara, CA

Appears in Patterns of Reconciliation

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