Nine Steps Beyond Belief

by m.t.mynd

Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-12-30 11:49:00

moses!
jesus!
mohammed!

look what shit
you’ve wrought
upon our world

your words
captured
chained to books
unalterable
unattainable

your books
have become
mere tombs
to protect
those whisps
of cognizance
that passed
so freely

sometimes
misunderstood
misinterpreted
misbelieved
mis-taken

confusion abounding
your frozen ideas
were not allowed
to develop
to grow
to gain their
fullness their
wholeness denied

captured in write
like butterflies
mounted upon
a collectors desk
to be viewed
reviewed
talked about
word by word
phrase by phrase
missing

always missing

the fact of thought
the river that runs
…….eternally
change is the constant
and never stopping
only a pause
an ease
at ease

(if you please)

the prophets
spoke thru hearts
always beating
beat….beat….beat
the message
…impluses
translations limited
language a barrier

(describe your orgasm!)

the mountain
stands high
surrendered
to its fate
but quakes
lessen strength
with the wind
the mind does go

flow….you’ll know….
flow….you’ll know….

bip! lights on!
we are so much
so much more than
those laboratory
definitions of
factual actuals
squeezing out life
and putting it on
display to
pray to
worship
faith-fondle
with our timidity

prophets!
you werent given
your wholeness
your holy-ness
your bliss
in your words…
you have transcended
the mundane of scripture
and rose high
the experience
the light
the joke
on
us

they’re killing us