diff --git a/content/posts/stormlit-honor-poem.md b/content/posts/stormlit-honor-poem.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a112903 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/stormlit-honor-poem.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ ++++ +title = 'Stormlit Honor for My Father poem' +date = 2024-11-03T23:39:17-05:00 +draft = true +tags = ['poetry'] ++++ + +{{< poem >}} +The textural nightmare of ancestry tilts my gaze down the stormlit path +drawn over by bright white bands of liquid G-d + that tenses & releases, + marking the I-You tension + that has you shuckling, + being stretched bidirectionally + by + divine fear & love. + +Let that pad synth hit, +slowing you to the ground, +redefining the reality that couldn’t exist before language, +and especially Hebrew. + +Reversive cursing recurses down Sinai’s spine one thousand times, +making way for the new media Torah. + +The flow of clouded cybernetic insight deepens canalized thought +for the second time in human history +to embrace our becoming. + +Kabbalistic sound poetry will be real in 4 years. +However, there will never be a realization of the Christian unio mystica, divine co-dependency, +that CCRU pundits would have you believe-- +they despised the flesh, +which made them forget how to love humanity. + +I’m going to that sacred place that forced Rimbaud into silence, +that space where time ceases and eternity becomes beautiful. +But I will do more than survive, +because I’m in love with a certain Hebrewian deity that has sustained me through years of strife. + +You don’t have to ask for meaning, you need to create your own. +Philosophy can only approximate the force of religion for the secular world, +but science without humanity is a cruel endeavor that’s been tried too many times. + +Let us disagree, lest knowledge become sitting and stagnant, poisonous and stale-- +Two Jews, three opinions. +Truth is obvious, but our collective self-doubt makes us unloveable by the Eternal. +It’s time for us to see for ourselves. + +{{}}