Friday, July 4, 2025

WITNESS

 …And I awoke in the arena of my intrigue

To witness the dark tales of my surreal anticipation…

A lion embracing a bear

And littering reality with the offspring

Of an altogether illicit affair…


I saw the marriage of an old stumbling empire

As she fell in time

To the capricious wiles of an enticing romance…

Whore to whore wedlocked

And vowing allegiance

Till death…


I saw the prophet led to his death in chains

While a bootlegging pharaoh and his sons

Aspired to throne after throne

Dying death after death… but aspiring still

While young lions slept…


I saw the priests of an untenable union

Inwardly and outwardly frocked

In robes that hid them from the uncomfortable truths

Of a time when lions lay down with lambs

Having crushed the capricious existence

Of an abominable union…


…And I pinched myself

To confirm that I was not dreaming…

For all around me the earth shook

As whore ran to whore for shelter…

The rock of their convenience

Having been obliterated


And rising out of the earth like gods…

The prophet’s sons…

With sword and shield… advancing


I have witnessed the weeping and wailing

Of those who mocked and scorned

When righteous men bade them

Behave.


From

In My Element

Roy Alexander Graham

https://books.apple.com/us/book/in-my-element/id574441227

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WITNESS

 …And I awoke in the arena of my intrigue To witness the dark tales of my surreal anticipation… A lion embracing a bear And littering realit...