The Courage Of Purity by All-My-Darkness, literature
Literature
The Courage Of Purity
Then: In other lives We lived We had nothing But a better life We dreamed of Sleeping honesty Bade us Hide our deep desires And hurt us that hiding did Till tolerance Was none We woke And walked away One day Whatever the reason And vowed Never to sleep talk again Now: There are shapes As like a heart But sculpted of salt From tears Thrown over shoulder Not from superstition But for satisfying closure In confidence These crystallized clarities Are cast into the abyss Of the past And nothing is asked for back From that blackness Only sodium trails Are left in night tides As we seek Rising suns that hide . We know We are enough Have enough love To light the way We have A gift of trust To make a hard heart Soft and flesh We care To make our arms stone And fortress who we hold No more danger Difficulty or problems Are sought to relearn What already burned us Our raw desire For moral benevolence Is no thin spun thread We hang from It is a lowered bridge We help others
The Details Of Cursing by All-My-Darkness, literature
Literature
The Details Of Cursing
Let's not
Get technical
Smearing yourself with sin
And sensing nothing
Is easy
Watching people talking
Over each other
Is hard
If you see yourself
In everyone’s ignorance
.
If you want the details
It is not
In the subtitles
Or subtext
It is not
In any crawlspace
You would imagine
In the imagination
Of unpleasant people
The fireproof truth
Is that hatred hides
In what is not hidden
Obvious instead
By omission
Unplanned
As children
The kids
Hold all the keys
To this disease
If you are raised
As perceived threat
You can bet
As you looked up
They looked down
Upon all your possibilities
And feared
They had none left
The curse
Is t