and i will stand emblazoned before
this realm
neither heaven nor hell but
conversation of

choice voice, choice melodies
counter points within maladies
tragic demises and the brisk
usurp of our lowly everythings...

oh mythic mind that
seeks fervent tides,
oh quaking self
curmudgeon and
crumbling!

oh life
in temperance
your slender rhythms treat as irritants to
our dreary somnolence but

in searing epicness our
embers grow to flame and
i am emblazoned to

this mythic mind that
seeks and journeys and yearns
through hallowed darkness
heralding too great of Certainty

for this modern world

and yes in methods of preservation,
in the battle to cling to remnants
and hold our hearts resonance
to merely ourselves

we are unlike anything
but our own distance and
dismay.

i will be emblazoned
and i will Know the ecstatic state of
Love's forever and the doom
of former selves demise

i will not defer love
for some other time
i will not defer pain
for some other time
i will not defer heaven
for some other time

for now, i am doomed
yet destined to this
holy surrender,
where all succumbs
to this enrapture where my
mythic mind find the grace
of Destiny

emblazoned and reborn