forget perfect angles and motivational mumbo-jumbo
show me the darkness you came from
the depths you thought you’d never crawl out of,
the ugly smack-in-the-face life stories
forget the smiles and the masks
show me the demons
destruction, delusion, drowsy depressed desperate drunken dungeon of
divinity
show me the spider webs stuck in eyebrows
quicksand under fingernails
howling alone in endless hours pleading for true rest
maybe then,
I will show you my broken glass inner world suddenly bursting in the desert sunshine like a mirage dream of consciousness rising like Phoenix from gravel under footprints in eternity.
