Illumination
Jan 15, 2024
The quiet thunder of your heart
Beats blatantly, like Kerouac’s prose
In a coffee house filled with
Beat poets chatting up cool
Baristas and blathering on
About particles and evolution
Offering no solution but
Asking questions as only
Artists can do and drilling down
Below the surface —
Is this why we crave authenticity?
The audacity to believe in something
Higher than man’s base feelings
And wringing light into the
Darkest corners of the human soul —
Like dropping a candle into the
Black hole and expecting
Illumination