A Nature's Revelation

[heslopian]

The kindness in you
was rivalled only by those moments
of perfect sense and clarity,
when you'd teach me something about human nature
which I hadn't considered before.

Now, as a driveway dotted with leaves
evokes a single image,
despite its thousand components;
pebble, curb and leaf;

as a bus pulls into its stop,
emitting and admitting equally;

as I sit in the local college
filling out forms,
and winter's excesses without
are exorcised within;

as all of this happens and is,

you're taken away.
The obscene altar my brother whispered about,
your disordered rooms and unswallowed pills,
are taken from you, your spirit having
dwindled down to madness, a bothersome bitch
with God as its excuse. The victim of your own human nature,
which you never quite revealed to me.