Playing God

photo by the author
About concessions surpassing condition in this mutual lust’s core. /
From Don to poet in 30 seconds.
I’m on poet duty.
I’m a hole in One.
Can I tell yah our range card?
The ego sits in its bunker
wonderin’ over friends and family,
excused about relationships
the very center of relationship.
Hey you I’m a world,
a big planet unto myself,
the center of my see.
You have not that validity.

You’re just out there,
and I’m in here
the substantial train yard.
I wanna melt these barriers down,
but I grab myself again,
and that’s impossible.
I really love you,
and that’s sweet and kind.
No it slaps you in the face sometimes.
I’m all animal whirl
when someone gets my goat,
but I mitigate it
with you must be in there too,
just fightin’ your own wars
really feelin’ yourself
a wounded soldier.

Can we get out of this?
I try.
I don’t know where to put you
if you don’t see my worth,
if I am just a blob in a corner
to you.
We sing awhile
the injustice in that.
Oh my God do I compensate.
I think I feel every hole in humanity.
I so understand your pain,
and it moves me to tears
I’m embarrassed to show.
My God you have a rough time
little Gaza boy
alone in his bed
of refugees.
I don’t know where to turn
from your pain
Parkland shooter
realizin’ what you’ve done.

I’m a hole in the fence
to a greater life
I can’t fit my own self through,
but I’ve been there
a time or two,
on the other side of that fence,
miraculously arrived
in the very vision of God’s eyes,
and I know we are safe
caught in the lifetime passage dream
to bring us all out of strife
at the end of the tunnel.

My God I would be there now
if I could unrealize the dream.
So I sit and suffer
in a peculiar sense of humor
that sees beyond the show.
I know we will be made right.
I see this in my puppy dogs
trying to crawl into me to feel safe
and ease their loneliness.
I am the master of love to them,
and I am but a prototype
based on God.
We’re headed somewhere,
you and me and the whole damn crew,
so I hold my dog and comfort you,
who set bars alight
wantin’ to get at this lust’s core
to dream to change it.

I would not be bothered safe.
Now tell me now would you?
Would you give it to ‘im,
this poem over there,
if he were your little boy in trouble?
We can fly the world on a single point
where suffering goes
and capture the whole poem.
Oh my baby dog Nithish,
we wish you a happy birthday
on tomorrow’s wings.

Born to Love

To murder someone else
on the arms of a little boy,
in the status of a little boy,
you hit the nail on the head
with what keeps us from being human to one another,
what keeps our humanity at bay
in the everyday meaning of relationship.

Nithish has a parent that’s me
we didn’t put together by law
or found by blood.
Time did it,
growin’ him up in my care,
parenting him.
No amount of denial can change that
in this boy’s heart
or in my shattered life.
No amount of lies can make it undone.
We are parent and child and more.

We are each other’s significant other
in that our lives are undone
in the worry over the other.
Where do you see that?
In his inability to concentrate solely on school,
in his brooding silence,
in his anger
that’s at a flashpoint every time,
in his antsyness and nervousness
not knowing what to do,
in his inability to sleep at night.
These are just vehicles.
Those around him know something’s up,
have known for months now,
and all the punishment you can give him can’t stop it,
all the control.

You got a situation
where you’ve gotten rid of one of the most important people in your son’s life, /
a very important person to your life,
even important to the school his goes to,
and that was done in what amounts to murder in the first degree,
where you simply killed him
as cruelly as you did that:
without any thought of goodness
or proper action,
cut me out of your boy’s life
like he was holding the gun,
and you even made him shoot me,
and he suffers for that to no end.

You can’t say why you done it,
just that your parental rights give you that right,
and I have none,
what it boils down to,
whatever the dyslexia of the situation,
the Sri Aurobindo,
and you split your family doing that,
made culpable his school.

Who am I again?
A real live person in your life
no amount of getting rid of will get rid of,
and even if you actually did kill me,
or send me off in space,
I would be around your neck
in plain view of that boy
for the rest of your relationship with him,
what you did to me and why
so you can have him for yourself.

Can we rule of the heart of the matter?
And the heart is a tough customer,
and you feel it too.
It’s what we live by,
overrides every rule,
shows itself as the leader of the life
in every relationship.
It can’t be denied,
and even if you ignore it,
it will make sure you can’t,
and you can’t can you Sandiya?
That’s why you control him so much.
You know he wants to be with me.

He’ll be 13
in less than a week.
I’ve been to every birthday that boy’s had,
been a principle player.
You know what he wants for his birthday.
He wants his daddy.
He needs his daddy.
You are his mother,
and that’s what mothers do,
meet their child’s needs.
Was he born from your womb and now you own and possess him,
or are you really his mother?
Well are you?

Anyway,
I want to see him on his birthday.
Why can’t that be arranged?
That’s tonight’s show.

To Employ New Arms Men

When you meet people,
it’s said to have a book confession.
Don’t you like camera?
There goes
my hand in.
Unlimited her tools,
creation mother.
I am really serious about my tea.
I don’t pick up girls at happy bars.
I’m bigger than that.
No I live and learn.
I too must lift the curtain of worn-mind.
I can’t go overboard.
I have to go to somewhere.
I can’t get there too quickly.

We challenge each other,
and you hear that basket in my house:
my gravities have to be steady.
I can’t pull the plug on reaction
until I’m right where I need to see it.
I’m pretty much a whole too.
I see my desires.
I’m not habituating them,
and the sex chakra says no.
Hang on,
to the orgasm out the top of the head
I am loyalty tower.
I guess that’s way
I rise behind this consciousness
and enter the Silence again.

Astronaut,
I am that astronaut
torn the curtain
between Nursemind and Supermind.
Okay,
if I get mad at you
for up us in Elvis,
I should just poet you shut up.
Is Goofy’s rig not bad for sellin’?

I’m at the end of my
ferter of dynamite.
You are all young.
It’s a bit of closed up there.
Can’t touch the Gods.

It’s not me
didn’t see.
That’s some awesome shit.
I’m half-grown.
Did you bring it one possible?
Here it goes.
Been there done that,
I need you to do that,
then study me some.
Boy do I look different.
Comin’ here’s comin’ here;
I tried
comin’ here for basketball,
and it left me singin’ monster.
I think you should just go inside.

He’s finished with the pencil,
he’s ready for the expense.
The world is not there
with any street signs on it,
how about that?
Horse please,
you can’t see the world
as a substantial form.
It’s a bare outline.
You’ve lost the world right in front of you.
It kinda gets me in my brother,
and everything’s silent don’t you see
you’re in the background noise?

Oh God it’s principle arrangement.
There’s nothing in your pockets.
You’re not tryin’ to get anything.
There’s no motivation on your own.
The world is just there,
and your oyster’s not in it.
You’re stunned.
You’re taller than mankind.
You’re deep in the Silence,
and you come upon God ways.

We’re almost there.
Just shimmy up that tree
and stop field mouse.
I’m breathin’ hard,
but I’m right there at the gun
a pageantry.
Don’t throw me away.
I know the business,
and I put two and two together.
My little boy’s the land rover
that principles enlightenment.
He’s got the starry list,
and I’m in my union circle.
Is no ants get to bar.
He gets held and catered to,
healed,
and I reach the 5th dimension.
I’m a bullpen
for he comes home tomorra.
I’m in the Silence come home.
Enlightenment is it,
a shoulder's worth.