do offer your weakest words
to the healing of flightless birds
encouraging the loss of a binding gag
where frantic bursts of shrill reminders
sputter out among pressurized dumbfinders
'til the notes settle on
the intangibility of the dolefully coveted cad
where the self-deluded "wild and free"
vacillate in hollowed strangerly reunion
forced to witness volumes of insignificant fiction
blow away as ash in the starving of vivifying communion
the opacity of bliss drenched recollections
which once flowed steadily in blinding combustible notions
coating a permeating crown with inner-sight thick as pitch
in a lotus eater's delusion
where witness to this culled chimera
challenges the now pried eye
back to realities singed sheer and ghostly
and the coronary passing
laid open pulsing and gushing
for the commanding and nullifying whipcracked denier
now pushes and pulls and
eases hand over mouth
to ensure the palating
of the force-fed numbing and dumbing routine
a religion for the road widen trodders
where moments are seemingly choice
and hearts stop raging
in the turning away from
that which grasps and gasps
buckling forgotten
amongst lashes of feckless flames
