Friday, 6 October 2017

The suppressed beast will return:


What is denied must hide
burrows deep into the shadow
breeds with like kind
festers, changes shape

until in a manner unpredicted
finds the key
escapes the dungeon
returns in a new configuration

war might be a sphere
or a surreal painting
dreams certainly
an alien spaceship;

once it was the ectoplasm —
objects flying through space
voices of the departed
known secrets revealed

or the old man who wandered home
years forgotten
scarred from experiences lost
and a pocket full of gold

or the couch beckons
stories told
a pencil scribbles
the fee is charged

all sides of a coin
so too the subatomic dance
the particle waving vibrations
and uncertain principles

the bumps of childhood
the alcohol found later
the manic scripts
the stranger in a strange land trips

manifestations of doubt —
can we ever know the unifying theory
or only our personal map

called experience?

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