Reluctant Heart

I.

Bellowing deep below the earth’s crust

Carnivores and whores

Of all nations, creed and blood

They form in lines

So far as the fifth eye can see

Lining up, center straight

With teeth that scrape side’s post

They scratch, they etch

Leave their name, leave their mark

Private sales, one week at a time

Entering the common man’s lift

To be hidden in cloaks of emperor’s past

Institution’s possession

Difference only by technique and wealth

Each labeled in a jar on a shelf

II.

Be forth

Forbidden path, road unlike the former trinity

Passage of light now seen by known

On the length of moon’s night

A sparrow’s song silenced

Thorns removed from their keeper’s position

Even thy enemies venerate her

Revealing innocent vulnerability

All mend their exhausted time frames

Exchanged in torridness

Captured at dawn’s rise

Now fertile with unexpected seed

Embark on your odyssey

Take the howling winds ahead

Question nothing but the sea’s roar

III.

Voyage hesitant of momentum

Calming calls abandoned, echoed against walls

Secrets confessed in the widow’s room

Opening to the great abyss

Void now filled with pillars of salt

Stolen and still

Sinking to the bottom, the deep

Voiceless creatures howl

All is quiet, vacant and unheard

Uncertain of compass’ direction

Opposing outcome destined

Confined to one’s vault of desolation

Witness deceased aging with disease

Not a fatal thrust of a stone dagger can please

Enduring a grand death, brought to thy knees

© 2009 David Greg Harth

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