The Universal Judgment

from Empty Mirror by Peter Kalisch

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Thinking on the life that haunts us
Just aside from the ones
Who make the promises

Underneath myself
I feel submission
The complications aside
I choose to be ignorant

I cannot see myself
So shook, but constantly afraid of you
Never once thinking
Never once feeling

Until I am struck
With the inclination that our life
Has been denied

Where is the rest of myself?
I now realize it was with you all along
Choosing to hold out, to give space

With your obsession of self
You are constantly convincing others
That you are alive

The man makes us in boxes
Ignoring the omnipotence
The undeniable power of nature

We are foolish for thinking
We have control over anything
We continue along this path

Until we are struck
With the realizations that
Our obsessions never occurred
They are fleeting

Where have you gone
What is inside of me
I
You abandoned me
Where are we

What if the opposition is simply
What holds it all in place
Who are we really fighting
Ourselves

The condition, the current state
Of giving our humanity up to others

Does the distance of us
From one another
Make it more obvious
Make us more easy to vilify

Why can't we see this for ourselves
The refusal to have
An intimate connection
With another man

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from Empty Mirror, released August 11, 2018
© Peter Kalisch, 2018
Mastered by Moment Trigger

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