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Of Everything Before and...

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Of Everything Before and After the Instance of a Held Breath

Even the wind seems hollow, caught in between being hallowed and swallowed
to touch the hair, the faces, friendly and bound to be carried into ex nihilo

and they felt it, and they dealt it, and they helped it be...

To whisper dreams upon the night, and have it answer with visions devoid of light
seems to be against the nature of self, the concepts that brought about silence
in the minds struggling for a leader to chain the ages upon ivory necks
outside the dichotomies, the infatuation with brain and brawn, with love and sex

and they felt it, and they dealt it, and they helped it be...

Should have known enough to embrace severance and leave cratered and rough,
but as whole as the hole delved within the fabric of what is right, and what is not

and they felt it, and they dealt it, and they helped it be...

The self-centeredness of vengeance, and all that is known to be the semblance
of compassion, has caught the eye of fashion and open-mouth kissed the violence
that seeps through the pores of the Anti-Everyman to brazenly mock Gethsemane.
Through the agony of whole families, it echoes the hollow of the will for enmity

and they felt it, and they dealt it, and they helped it be...
ex nihilo = from or out of nothing

Yes, I realize that it is an adj/adv...I claim creative license to push the boundries of word usage. :-)
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-henrique-'s avatar
well, I'm back. heh

I think I know now why I had no clue what this meant before, not that I claim to know it better now...

When I first read it, I was happy. heh. Funny how outside influences can skew an interpretation. It sorta smashed me in the face how depressing this starts off, at least how conscious it is - of things going on and of misfortune.

That's what this reads to me, a great and elaborate description of misfortune in life, how great moments were once had and held in hand but now lost or obscured, and though returning to that feeling of greatness is still possible, its most unlikely.

and that repitition just drives the nail on how depressing this is, heh

beautifully written though. I guess its hard to absorb something you dont prepare yourself to. It's hard for a sea creature to absorb air through the air, instead of air through the water.

that should make no sense, and then complete sense,
i liked this greatly