evoke a memory, invoke a spirit
and a light comes alive, a temple is built!
how brittle that memory, how deceptive a temple
when all it takes to empty out a journey lived,
when all it takes to deconsecrate a higher power,
to have placeholders plastered on fire.
love of money, love of self, love of others
what have you? the spinning of tales,
like a spider's web becoming a ever thicker
fog. till the walls etch carvings of their own,
they too have love, love of bricks, love of
witnessing a drunkard call down spirits, too strong
lead the way, follow a million chatters
that soothes the mind. the mountain
turns to a dot when brought high up,
with mist covering the pinnacle -
don't look down, the cloud is like
a spyglass on one end and out
the other comes a mirror of me
becoming you in deep hot seat.
the entanglements dissolve when
hammer splashes on water adapting
one said patience, the other said why wait
one said long suffering, the other scoffed
when easy pickings come on a rainy day
with all the green sprouts shooting up
to touch a blue sky shaped by guesses
too many -