Tuesday, April 28, 2026

CREATURES OF A LESSER LOVE

Gods who think like mortals

Indulge their passions

In ruthless pursuit of their desires

Expressing their whim

With the split-second fierceness

Of stormy clouds in opposite polarity

Smashed together in fiery abandon

And breeding in their blaze

Children like us…


Men who think like lesser gods

Indulging their whims

In ruthless pursuit of those passions

That expose their opposite polarities

Creating storms that rage

First in their souls… and then upon a world

That has them confused

About creature and creator


Spirits cast down

Because of unresolved quarrels

And desires born of a ruthless passion

To rule a world out of which they came to be…


Victims… of a deception

Outcasts of a heaven… that is pure love

And a Creator… who knows no passion



From - Of Paradise Despised...

By - Roy Alexander Graham

https://books.apple.com/us/book/of-paradise-despised/id574445446


NEON OBLIVION


Virtual cemeteries

The neon pavilions

Of what has become our world…

Coronation market of our desires

With its screaming lights

Beckoning us to pay with our souls

The price of our dreams…

And scolding those

Who refuse to listen to its lies

With adjectives that trap the unwise


Superficialities… 

Tap dancing on the vulnerable surface

Of our sensibilities

And trampling into oblivion

The traces of our charity… the sweetness of our lives

Suppressing our vitality

Under the force

Of a deceptive evil


Neon is most attractive in the dark

Such is the reasoning of its design

To lure the unfamiliar spirit

To the trap of its consumption…

Guard well the environs of your senses…

Do not be fooled by the allure

Of a purposely darkened world…

Beware the kingdom… of the neon knight



From - Of Paradise Despised...

Roy Alexander Graham

https://books.apple.com/us/book/of-paradise-despised/id574445446


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