Matter Over Mind (an end to a means)
you knew me before I did
I always knew behind my eyes
I would never die
yet I was not alive
until I died
I came shooting up the place
fresh out of an embryonic horror
matter over mind
it was glory
revolution story
making fine gestures of
artistic sacrament
holy indulgent
dancing on the edge
of that black hole
made for one hell of an
astronaut glide
shit slide
inside
the vacuum
sucking my brain
twisted my fight
tight
into yesterday without
understanding
what then done
now would have none
I am not here
you are not there
I am nowhere
I am everywhere
I am one of the lone billions
seeking significance in a bottle
stained with the star spangled jet stream ground zero of vacant medicines
heart sealed with a fist
I'm a beggar
and pride is a thief
in my time of dying
the pain that reigns
is change
delusion seeks the seeker of the void
who seeks the void to inhabit a vacuum?
to surround themselves with nothing
as if to strive for nothing means everything
but in a vacuum
everything IS nothing!
to attain everything one must become as nothing
enslaved in freedom of
senses
senseless freedom
driven to nowhere
through the chase
you're already there
beyond what you know
by the thought that
blows your mind
be still and grow
an end to a means
I always knew behind my eyes
I would never die
yet I was not alive
until I died
I came shooting up the place
fresh out of an embryonic horror
matter over mind
it was glory
revolution story
making fine gestures of
artistic sacrament
holy indulgent
dancing on the edge
of that black hole
made for one hell of an
astronaut glide
shit slide
inside
the vacuum
sucking my brain
twisted my fight
tight
into yesterday without
understanding
what then done
now would have none
I am not here
you are not there
I am nowhere
I am everywhere
I am one of the lone billions
seeking significance in a bottle
stained with the star spangled jet stream ground zero of vacant medicines
heart sealed with a fist
I'm a beggar
and pride is a thief
in my time of dying
the pain that reigns
is change
delusion seeks the seeker of the void
who seeks the void to inhabit a vacuum?
to surround themselves with nothing
as if to strive for nothing means everything
but in a vacuum
everything IS nothing!
to attain everything one must become as nothing
enslaved in freedom of
senses
senseless freedom
driven to nowhere
through the chase
you're already there
beyond what you know
by the thought that
blows your mind
be still and grow
an end to a means
Written by Scott Schoffstall
© January 14, 2011
all rights reserved
http://www.poeticsojourn.com/the-sojourner.html
© January 14, 2011
all rights reserved
http://www.poeticsojourn.com/the-sojourner.html
