11-24-2013, 01:39 PM
"But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." - Matthew 8:12, King James Bible
We whispered together like children in outer darkness,
a world of Absolute Nothing,
swishes of light penetrating as a knife through crisp blue air,
and us, random beings, the fungal fringes of Creation,
caught in our trap, outside God, outside any love but each others'.
We whispered together, and we touched,
animate flesh connecting, divisble souls collated
in this outpost of Divinity. The sensitive soul,
the rational soul, the vegetative soul...
Robert Burton's trinity, conceived as far from Eden
as Grace is from wolves... these three in two became six,
one light flowing out from within, one wholeness,
one crude totality. God's dismembered limbs,
crawling across that sludge of His design, met one another
and melded, to form a grotesque animal, a beast in esoteric love.
We whispered together like children in outer darkness,
a world of Absolute Nothing,
swishes of light penetrating as a knife through crisp blue air,
and us, random beings, the fungal fringes of Creation,
caught in our trap, outside God, outside any love but each others'.
We whispered together, and we touched,
animate flesh connecting, divisble souls collated
in this outpost of Divinity. The sensitive soul,
the rational soul, the vegetative soul...
Robert Burton's trinity, conceived as far from Eden
as Grace is from wolves... these three in two became six,
one light flowing out from within, one wholeness,
one crude totality. God's dismembered limbs,
crawling across that sludge of His design, met one another
and melded, to form a grotesque animal, a beast in esoteric love.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe