David Gairdner - Nature
- David Gairdner
- Jun 9
- 1 min read
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- Swill
- Still
- Swill still
- So so
- Because because
- I flutter
- I flutter
- What is the point of beauty
- Sadness.
- Tragedy
- Can distract and confuse
- Can you put me in a state of confusion
- Can you disturb me. Give me a moment to fall on my knees.
- I beg forgiveness
- I try to trammel up the deeds.
- I want to be forgiven.
- Once forgiveness was thought to be universal and bestowed upon by higher forces.
- Higher forces, are lower forces
- In between forces
- Gravity, electromagnetic forces
- I fall
I fall on my knees,
Beg forgiveness to gravity’s power.
- I feel so hollow.
Are you tired?
Indigestion perhaps.
- The stars are in alignment like. Like a paranoid OCD’s view of the pavement cracks.
- I know sleep is the answer to my petition.
- I’ll dream a new conditional
- I’ll meet my living father, who lives now but lives differently.
I’ll awake to my waking self and meet my phobias, fears and guilts like an old acquaintance.
When I was younger I awoke feeling relieved that I did not like that dream.
I now awake pinching myself to sleep.
Starry eyes look down without forgiveness. A mother’s eyes frozen in a photograph.
- Completely bereft of memory except for the witness.
I hear palms shiver.
As our closest star falls under mountain.
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