They come to you.
Inhuman silhouettes
plague you. In this,
you feel sure,
there must be
some meaning.
More than just scientists
isolating, tranquilizing, abducting
and studying a specimen
they then tag and liberate,
only to track and monitor
remotely, occasionally
apprehending
for another episode
of catch and release.
I’m clearly just a fish out of water.
I just don’t belong.
Too weird, feeling like a stranger.
Square peg stuck
in a wicked world of round holes.
Plow in, carve out
a space for alien things,
bootleg memories,
against typical, traditional
experience, outline
a way, paying dues,
compensating owed attention
to the weight and impulses
of the carried mind,
largely draped
in shadows still,
all as you contribute
to resuscitation
to counteract
the collective decline…
You’ve forgotten,
dumbass —
in light
of the accomplishments
achieved,
despite conscious
ignorance —
all that’s come to pass:
the desolate desert
of the past; the world you abandoned
to find and study
the elements that contributed
to that epic
catastrophe
in resonant, cosmic
echoes and casts…
Remember
to recalibrate your path.
Just recall,
to better mold the casts
of what we’ll all become.
Not a slave to Them. No, only in the buried I.
Not just a messenger, yet:
within, deep in the core, a message resides.
Take
and do with it
as you will,
just please, stay true.
Be yourself.
Express all your denied;
all dismally accepted
aspects of mind.
Impulses inspire
strangulation, lacerations.
Bottom to top:
subspace.
mastermind.
Open: I.
Fear that I’m growing.
I fear I’m going blind.