Poetry
Bethesda, Jerusalem
Broken man
Miracle pool
38 years
Saviour
Question
Curveball
Vertigo
“Do you want to get well?”
Dumbass query to a cripple
Or heart of the matter?
Imploding core of our humanity
Black hole?
Or escape velocity?
YES or NO?
Pivot
“What do you want?”
No simple question
No easy answer
To walk…
To live…
I speak from experience
From anorexic ghostlands
Wasted plains
And days of fogged despair
Still covet the ragged souvenirs
A sighing music boxA chest of broken memories
Of tears
Pivot
“Do you want to get well?”
And leave behind those haunting, twisted melodies
That comfort
Become
Define you
Fear blooms watercolour dark
Subtract my brokeness and what is left?
Panic screams
-1+1=zero
Better not to play the hero
Stay wrapped in velvet knowns
For Satan smiles sweetly
To keep us in his death cloak
To pin us where he wants us
Can I really change?
Do I really want to?
The demons scratch their doubts
Infect mind
With futility
While world lurches drunkenly
You’ve sucked at this teat too long
Grown frail on poisoned milk
Too late to wean
In the promised land
With the
Golden
Alien
Confident
Truth is:
Change costs dearly
You’ve got to want it
Really
And walk it
Daily
If you screw up, get up.
Again
And again
And again
Pivot
“Do you want to get well?”
Answer carefully
It’s no cosmetic surgery
Or road for the faint
Or sighing saint
Someone once said to gain your life you must first lose it
Who was it?
O yes
Bethesda
Broken man
Miracle pool
Saviour
Question
Curveball
Pivot
And now
I stand at the crossroads
Again
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