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Uncontainable By The Bondage Of Words
Uncontainable
By the bondage
Of words
Its nature
Is unexplainable
Nameless
And
Formless
Yet more whole than
The even most perfect
Analogy can imply
To say it acts
Is a lie
To say it is
Is a lie
Even to call it ‘it’
Is a lie
Yet it acts
As it is
And as it does
In its way
Unfathomable
And unknowable
To everything
Other than itself
This
Despite its
Impact being
Forever felt
By everything
Or
perhaps not
As its very nature
Invalidates these words
As well as your interpretation of them
Uncontainable
By the bondage
Of words
Its nature
Is unexplainable
Nameless
And
Formless
Yet more whole than
The even most perfect
Analogy can imply
To say it acts
Is a lie
To say it is
Is a lie
Even to call it ‘it’
Is a lie
Yet it acts
As it is
And as it does
In its way
Unfathomable
And unknowable
To everything
Other than itself
This
Despite its
Impact being
Forever felt
By everything
Or
perhaps not
As its very nature
Invalidates these words
As well as your interpretation of them
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
These Words
These words
Are such a limp expression
Of the rage
You’ve evoked
Within me
You cannot fathom
The pain I could induce
Were I to yield
The full weight of my mind
Upon the sole task
Of destroying yours
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken
Of Myself
If I could just
Monetize my pain
I’d be able
To exist
In this world
As myself
Until then
All I can offer you
Are these
Few
Words
Of myself
If I could just
Monetize my pain
I’d be able
To exist
In this world
As myself
Until then
All I can offer you
Are these
Few
Words
Of myself
This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken