MIGHT OF THE FOOL

You wretched pariah
You gargoyle spirituality
Wailing odes of hope
Yearning for intimacy with Knowledge
You ignorant cadaver spirituality
Seeking enlightenment in structure
Don't you know that when finally
You shall embrace the skeleton
You have renounced life?

Then how can I know?

You pathetic mockery of a soul
You ace of delusions
Wailing odes of hope
Yearning for intimacy with Trust
You naive fool
Seeking quiescence in loyalty
Don't you know that when finally
You attain the respite
You have renounced vigilance?

Then how can I love?

You disfigured mistake
You disemboweled wisdom
Wailing
Yearning
Seeking
Don't you know that when finally
You have ended your quest
When you have reached your journey's end
You have renounced yearning, seeking?

Never.

                    Benaya, 2002

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