This poem explores the temptation to take power.
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Pitch perfect into delicious chamber of echoes
Whose broad escapades into twilight timbers
Travelled beyond me into eternal vibrations
Praising me for speaking them into reality.
Ponder now that willow wisping back at God
Telling Him the mystery of prayers, fragrant
For none hears that willow wisp beyond ears
For none hear that willow's wisp beyond ears
Shivers up and down my spine in awe of voice
Mirrored back into some blank creative world
Which both I and us are given pow'r to form
Into Heav'n or Hell and choice to wield words
Hallelujah to the makers of men who endured
Beyond cruel that existence that forged gene
Thrust into that chorus of species birthed
Glorious anarchy until the anarchs reigned
Bipedal mammals absolved of guilt by will
Will into the world their own progenitors
Some sopranos of territorial preservation
Disguised as altos who's, Melody enthralls.
Praise to Him who reigns above in Heaven
Propped and provisioned for every whim
In some State of Euphoria, a Utopia of Sin,
Built by those who ATE NOT in that mind war
Caleb, himself desirous of that inheritance,
Sang among the children of Kohath in bass
Deep booming calls to Hell to free prisoners
Across the veil of time to free fucking Lazarus
I wasn't brave enough to write that staff in ink
Tepid that heart of water quaked in conscience
Brass trumpets heralding some arrival of man
A child born to her that fellowshipped in asin.
Clapping out in joy, fleeing from shallow praise
Angry among the brothers of Joseph, preying
Chanting now that tenor coloring that coat
In blood of animals slain in sacrifice for reeee
God was walking among men, betrayed by them
For his adherence to power, his addiction fed
Succumbing to his own infidelity to truth
Jackals cry, javelins fly, Jacqueline, wise, sighs.
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📅 Written April 17, 2024
📍 Written along the West Toll Gate Creek in Aurora, Colorado
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Thanks for reading this poem. I remember many years ago listening to a sermon preached by Pastor Jack Hyles of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. It was basically entitled "Pray for Power" and centered around the premise that the people of God should be the ones who wield power in society. This lingered for several years as a major part of my identity and I even got the fancy foil printed into the cover of my Bible with that saying.
And this is where Spiderman's uncle got it wrong, great power doesn't come with great responsibility, great power comes with little responsibility and there is a large part of society that will preach and teach you to take power so that they can defang you and your will, they see that you are an abusive asshole and instead of fighting you, they laud on you greater and greater power, filling you with a sense of importance that you can only burn out your conscience by entertaining.
And I only say this because I have had my own temptations and burned my own conscience by grabbing onto that power which I fucking wanted.
a Joshua Brown poem #218 "C - Lark's Song"
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