Oracle
Can I trade my eyes with you so that I may see?
Maybe if I gouged out my eyes
I wouldn't see. Sometimes vision
deludes the senses,
bends reality.
.
Dim's one's sense of self,
groundedness in the real,
the present, the moment.
.
If I gouged out my eyes
other people's thoughts,
wishes, lives, dreams
.
would stop colliding
against inner space,
.
saving myself from this communal,
intuitive ritual.
.
If I gouged out my eyes
I could undo the trauma I committed
against my inner-self.
.
------
.
Maybe I lived another life,
drenched in drug induced rituals
sitting atop an ancient temple,
on sacred soil, priestesses
.
extrapolating all I shouldn't see.
Delivering visions
to my acolytes, worshiping
in apocalyptic ecstasy.
.
Maybe if I gouged out my eyes,
I'd live a different life,
in a different time,
in a different space,
.
throned upon foreign earth.
My intuition shaking nations
and kings sanctifying my inner self,
.
far from my external
space, and synchronicity.
.
If I committed a horror so drastic,
I'd be the Oracle at Delphi,
next to God, but not quite so.
Writing verses that last a thousand years.
.
------
.
If I gouge out my eyes
hold them in front of my heart
just for you,
.
I'd baptize them anew with blood
of my veins, vessels
orbs freshly cleansed,
.
I'd find the piece of truth
I couldn't see,
with organs that failed me.
I'd reach out to you
.
hold them palms up
carefully, like ancient oriental glass,
.
give them freely
to an unsuspecting person.
My dearest friend
or most ancient enemy.
.
As the greatest gift
I never wanted
and did not need.
.
You could do things
I couldn't do,
be things I couldn't be.
.
I could bury the gift
that didn't give me anything.
And finally, like Mojgani says,
sleep softly.
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Poetry Landscapes
We are a poet influenced by Charles Bukowski, and Button poets such as Anis Mojgani, Neil Hilborn and Andrea Gibson. He follows the outlaw style and utilizes surrealist landscapes. Find more at https://poetrylandscapes.com
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