Artwork by Blythe Worthy and Alexandra Mildenhall.
I
There are specific things that may be acknowledged:
Growth is painful, learning to be alone is natural,
Youth is tortured, too silent, too much stimulation
The caffeine draining our minds of any rational thought
The hormonal cyclone of immaturity and desire for anything,
Everything, more, always
As I watch those around me grow into those I do and do not
Aspire to be, in a quiet intensity, so too I feel the fluid in veins,
Of ‘Ginsy and Jack’, as it flies through me in meaning, or in vain
I do not maintain a position of steadfast breathing, nor a statue
Of some other deity I aim to be;
In fact, I am flighty, I am never in one solid form, and perhaps I
Am held only in the palms of those in my midst, for my foresight
Is limited – I have neglected the good wishes of the eyes
II
There are such epiphanies to be had, in the growth (pain) of
New friendships and the floating conversations of strangers
(All things that float are irrelevant, for they do not adhere to
Substance)
And may the ground hold me down with a might unwavering, so that
I withhold the nausea of living
What a time to be alive – what a self-reflexive epiphany – so
Mindlessly suggested by those to whom I’ve granted wings in my eyes
And though thoughts may be spared, I am thankful of the little but
Boundless insight regarding everything in the past life
I vehemently try to revive
III
For don’t you see it now, there is a revolution within our jaded minds,
A revolution in the cyclical sense, that the cogs in our hearts may
Turn faster than fast
And possessions fall apart or dissolve, as we value the eyes
Of our souls – what a sight to behold, the New Romantics or Old
Let us separate the lives of our parents and dive in the cold
Fall of a world melted tenfold
Our eyes be the witnesses to the fires of disgust, and the fires
Of resentment, of irreverence, and false sympathy
As I rip out the insincerity of daily, ordinary acceptance of life,
It is apparent that honesty is not the constellation I watch in
My night
Rather, she is an entity at times horrid, or bright for weary eyes
And may I aspire to pursue such a noble lady as honesty in
This lifetime,
May her challenge or power strip my eyes, from time to time
From this badly- imagined perception that is thrust in our minds
By some society so inept, that she rejects the cry of
Her own child
Let the child grow to become the forefront of love, the leading solution;
If society will not nurse the humanity at her feet, then let the
Role be inverted;
Such power as we have not seen lies at our feet,
Vacant and culminating –
And I will seize whatever finality I can grasp, for the world is
One burning phenomenon away from some Hell we’ve imagined
And I hope you will take my hand as one, even in too
Much silence, too much stimulation, and we will pinpoint the
Right constellation
