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Welcome To
My World
Welcome to my world,
it’s made of light
seeping through darkness,
where failure is acknowledged, but with
nothing to repent.
Where zero is both nothing
and perfection of the
starkness,
and destiny is self-owned although life is
only lent.
In the beating of the pulse
and the potentials of the
mind,
the exaltation of the spirit of the whole of
humankind,
it seeks the highest virtue
while other men are swine
before your pearls.
Welcome to my world.
Welcome to my world,
it’s made of love born
out of hating;
with the charcoal from the fire it draws
conclusions made of ash.
The ruins of your dreams become
the tools for generating
the fleshy scar-tissue that heals the bloody
gash.
If I knew where true love came from,
if that door revealed a
crack,
I would volunteer to go, and I would go and
not come back.
You who sit there dreaming
of another pretty girl,
Welcome to my world.
Welcome to my world,
it’s a temple of the
spirit,
where God lives on in exile though the world
is sure he’s dead;
where your thoughts are free in private,
you don’t need a speaking
permit
from the democratic tyrants who don’t heed a
word you’ve said.
Here we laugh
through all your sermons
and we cry through all your jokes,
and no one pays
attention to the Rabbis or the Popes.
When the tongues of
fire are speaking
and the visions are ecstatically unfurled,
Welcome to my world.
Welcome to my world,
it’s full of tears but also laughter,
It resides in what
is now, it’s not concerned with what comes next.
It yearns to hear
of grace
both before the meal and after,
and it seeks
illumination, though it’s thoroughly perplexed.
When they write my
epitaph,
let them praise one thing about me,
that he knew not
where the road led, but still dauntlessly he went;
When the wire is
barbed and bloody
and the sharpest stones are mercilessly hurled,
Welcome to my world.
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