03-01-2015, 11:39 PM
“De amicitia”ǂ (Revision)
In the early morning
before eyes comprehend daylight,
I travel at synaptic speed
recalling,
deconstructing,
reimagining,
that which could never be,
yet still prowls the borders of my memory.
In our youth,
when time was eternal,
the curtains would briefly part
offering unfocused glimpses,
gifts of tomorrow
wrapped in translucence.
Wearing glasses
coated in the shimmering sheen of ignorance,
we spoke in black and white,
and robed ourselves
in creeds, in piety, in dogma, in
certainty.
Together we disintegrated in centrifugal rays
impelled forth as the remnants of an expiring star,
colliding with both the achievable and insurmountable,
concurrently luminous and lackluster,
drinking apocryphal water from the wells of truth
as life
evolved into lives.
Constrained by reality and grasping
for a humanity not yet ours,
echoing the words of Cicero,
“Esse quam videri.”*
*”To be, rather than to seem.”
ǂ On Friendship – A treatise by Cicero, Chapter 98
“De amicitia”ǂ
In the early morning
before eyes comprehend daylight,
while quiet rules the nether kingdom of dreams,
a mind travels at synaptic speed
recalling,
deconstructing,
reimagining,
that which could never be, but…
may have been, if only I could remember.
During our youth,
when time was eternal,
the curtains would briefly part
offering unfocused glimpses
of that which we imagined in our play.
Wearing glasses
coated in the shimmering sheen of unknown ignorance,
we spoke in black and white,
and robed in creeds, in piety, in dogma, in…certainty.
Together we disintegrated in centrifugal rays
impelled forth as the remnants of an expiring star,
colliding with the achievable and insurmountable,
concurrently luminous and lackluster,
drinking apocryphal water from the wells of truth
as life
evolved into lives.
Constrained by reality and the humanity to which we still aspire,
echoing the words of Cicero,
“Esse quam videri.”*
*”To be, rather than to seem.”
ǂ On Friendship – A treatise by Cicero, Chapter 98
In the early morning
before eyes comprehend daylight,
I travel at synaptic speed
recalling,
deconstructing,
reimagining,
that which could never be,
yet still prowls the borders of my memory.
In our youth,
when time was eternal,
the curtains would briefly part
offering unfocused glimpses,
gifts of tomorrow
wrapped in translucence.
Wearing glasses
coated in the shimmering sheen of ignorance,
we spoke in black and white,
and robed ourselves
in creeds, in piety, in dogma, in
certainty.
Together we disintegrated in centrifugal rays
impelled forth as the remnants of an expiring star,
colliding with both the achievable and insurmountable,
concurrently luminous and lackluster,
drinking apocryphal water from the wells of truth
as life
evolved into lives.
Constrained by reality and grasping
for a humanity not yet ours,
echoing the words of Cicero,
“Esse quam videri.”*
*”To be, rather than to seem.”
ǂ On Friendship – A treatise by Cicero, Chapter 98
“De amicitia”ǂ
In the early morning
before eyes comprehend daylight,
while quiet rules the nether kingdom of dreams,
a mind travels at synaptic speed
recalling,
deconstructing,
reimagining,
that which could never be, but…
may have been, if only I could remember.
During our youth,
when time was eternal,
the curtains would briefly part
offering unfocused glimpses
of that which we imagined in our play.
Wearing glasses
coated in the shimmering sheen of unknown ignorance,
we spoke in black and white,
and robed in creeds, in piety, in dogma, in…certainty.
Together we disintegrated in centrifugal rays
impelled forth as the remnants of an expiring star,
colliding with the achievable and insurmountable,
concurrently luminous and lackluster,
drinking apocryphal water from the wells of truth
as life
evolved into lives.
Constrained by reality and the humanity to which we still aspire,
echoing the words of Cicero,
“Esse quam videri.”*
*”To be, rather than to seem.”
ǂ On Friendship – A treatise by Cicero, Chapter 98