Life is a fabrication of palatable lies.
Swimming through consciousness,
Shoaling like fish, open mouthed,
We take in all that we can swallow.
Hallucinating a fragile reality
Clinging to shreds
Pulling at threads
Holding our heads
We long for dignity.
Pulled to the earth
From a home in the sky
Spinning between birth and death
Eyes tightly closed
We swallow lie after lie
Searching for sweetness
Finding only the dry wafer
The bitter wine.
Thank you Jason. I like those lines too.
That is an extremely astute observation Hazel, really cleverly written but my favourite lines:
We swallow lie after lie
Searching for sweetness
Finding only the dry wafer
The bitter wine.
The dry wafer and bitter wine, that sums up a large portion of belief for me.
J. x
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Hazel ettridge
Fri 31st May 2019 12:31
Jennifer, Jon, Lisa - thank you for the 'likes'. There is so much good stuff on this site and I always appreciate it when people have stopped by.