two favorites, one mine, one a Countee Cullen sonnet

Trapped in a purgatory of their own conceit…

 

“The top of the pyramid – the organization is composed of Technologists who only pretend to have power, although they are only actors in the theater of mirrors.  When the mirror is broken they die, because the internal drive of their actions vanishes.” 

– Svetislav Basara, The Cyclist Conspiracy

Trapped in a purgatory

of their own conceit…

The web of lies they weave

gets tighter and tighter

in its deceit

until it bottoms out -

at a very low frequency -

and implodes.

It may be just a matter of perception –

they can’t undo their wrongs

for fear it’d undermine their

perceived authority –

an authority they think they require

to stay in charge.

Yet all the while,

the more they talk,

the more they lie,

and the deeper down the hole they go.

There’s nothing I need to go back to -

nothing to re-litigate -

nothing to defend -

and certainly nothing to prove

to the unworthy.

Just wait…

just wait and feed them rope.


Kid Cudi - Trapped in My Mind

Sonnet

There are no wind-blown rumors, soft say-sos,
No garden-whispered hearsays, lightly heard,
I know that summer never spares the rose,
That spring is faithless to the brightest bird.
I know that nothing lovely shall prevail
To win from Time and Death a moment’s grace;
At Beauty’s birth the scythe was honed, the nail
Dipped for her hands, the cowl clipped for her face.

And yet I cannot think that this my faith,
My winged joy, my pride, my utmost mirth,
Centered in you, shall ever taste of death,
Or perish from the false, forgetting earth.
You are with time, as wind and weather are,
As is the sun, and every nailed star.