starkness of being

a starkness of being

 

there is a starkness to being

 

strip away all circumstance as propositional

eliminate all situations as myopic involvement

however clear and however pure 

behind thought

however deep and attentive 

beyond self as aware

however the witness is 

conscious in residence

all thoughts that come forth

and all words that secure

are like weighty stones unto themselves

yet live into life as the surface interaction

being tossed ongoing into the experience pool

soon converted to ripples as remembrances

as they, being baptized into life, soon subside

the representation is forged into memories

there sinking away from the faith of float

no matter how ever extensive the waves

they were as they appeared to be

they are now gone swallowed whole

undermined by the forms they took then

the symbolic impress they were to us in meeting them

how as feedback for it was real for then

now remembered

can only confirm a process evolved around need

that need as all needs become undressed

revealing a starkness of being

a pile of provisions stripped away

that do not fill the mirror in reflection

a hearsay of falsified life extensions

that have trial and errored their way

through living them . . . now muted

an accrued menu of habits

written into almost unconscious font as script

that did not ever feed the soul

setting all these things aside

as their remains  . . .

still . . . there remains

a starkness of being