Saturday, May 21, 2011

so this is what it is to be free of your past--

surrounded by the monuments of your own ignorance--

the undoable consequence setting the vectors of

personal movement along channels curling

like a tangle of cord around the penitent feet--

and all resolve to amend useless

amid the intractable wake of progress--



spare the spiritual types your scorn--

they've picked the hardest way to go--

some just sitting in their own corrupt monasteries

peering out a bedroom window at holy hallucinations--

while the ones who actively try to live a life

of illumination ask for more troubles than a mere mortal

can bear--and get it in spades...


Content (c) 2008-2011 Philip Milito.

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