Intro
Within you
lies
a divine message.
A cryptic psalm.
Would you recoil
if you heard
your
omniscient song?
Would you question your sanity?
Would you deny the source?
Would you remain silent?
Better yet,
what if
your purpose
is to decipher
that prescient hymn?
I’m not trying to convince you of anything.
Seriously,
all poetry aside,
I’m asking you
to question
yourself.
If you could imagine
the solution,
would you
courageously
amend our world
by overcoming
your fears?
Lorraine’s Psalm
By examining six degrees of passion,
as if they were rifts
formed
on wintry roads,
her mental cycle
repaired the lining
preserving her sentient abode.
The steps are no secret,
but I’ll repeat them again.
Despite the hindrance
of dementia,
this time,
synapses
deserve a mend.
Six steps so simple
that we all
should agree,
but again,
I will voice them
numerically.
When you are frightened
ask yourself why.
Then hold your breath
and scry for lies.
Not too long
but enough to see deeper.
Where opportunities lie
next to curiosity’s keeper.
There
you will find courage
to convert fear into knowledge.
If you survive this inquisition
it leads to sibylline college.
Bask in the glow
with your radiant skin.
As fear,
catalyzed
into curiosity,
releases
endorphins within.
Learned anew,
abandon
the community of malice.
Then saunter
full of wisdom
emerged
from fractals
of solace.
With time,
you will find society
elevated by soul,
where traditions of the past
seem frivolous.
Dare I say,
old.
This is an excerpt from the short story, A Psalm for Red Lands.
Keven Guynn is an eternal omnist, writer and gentleman.
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