to a new friend

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  • catarino
  • Cultures come to conquer and their gods applaud.

to a new friend

i found god at the bottom of a
crumpled box,
wet and hands like cardboard
crying for all he'd lost.

i tossed a poem at his feet
and flowers grew like stars

----his mouth AGAPE,

and eyelids twitching,
listnin to the moan of
passing cars.

"James?", he wondered loudly.

"no.", I whispered in my head.

-I am prometheus posessed,
and chained to sainthood!
a martyr, I confessed.

-i am a child who admires all you've
ever said.
i suffer in denial, refuse myself,
betray sensation and sleep most of
the day.

-and nights i am the moon.
a lover and companion of this
dirty world we roll around on,
tired, blind believers.
my mind dances and my hands
do sin.

but i carry you within me lord.
you are my child, and your
word is my mother.

bring ease to me.

(all this i screamed inside myself, without a sound escaping the moist prison of my lips)

"James?", again he pleaded.
"If that's you my brother, please, i'm thirsty."

-but my footsteps prayed for his salvation as i walked away,
saying nothing that his ears might hear.

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causeofbalance commented on to a new friend

07-09-2009

i can see christian influence. i like that you think a bit more about it than the usual person. i get the feeling you are challenging your own beliefs, looking for approval, through you praying for salvation and wanting ease. do his ears not hear it because he does not want to? prometheus had his liver eaten everyday, because he brought light/fire to us. this is like socrates allegory of the cave, you are bringing light to the cave dwellers, when they are used to shadows, my friend. they cannot understand, but you can relate to them, and if anyone can speak to them, it is you, my friend. they should hear what you have to say, even if they dont want to. is this your intentions? i have my own way of approaching them, i like something different and new, bravo :)

catarino

07/09/2009

i think we often distinguish differences and thus separate many phases of our lives. This is a struggle of belief. a battle of place. In regard to prometheus, I think he is a figure relatable to christian beliefs...Adam and Eve...eating from the tree of knowledge...martyrdom...rebirth, redemption, punishment-sainthood. Have you looked into the similarities of christian scripture and other world myths.....interesting to me.

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Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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