Wednesday, March 13, 2024

"Trauma Bonded to a Jealous God" [bio-generated poem, religious trauma poem]

 I whisper to demons

This is how I sleep

Eating apples 

Off forbidden trees

In a wilderness

That echoes every piece of my

Imaginary eyes


You can keep your knowledge of good

And choke on your knowledge of evil

But I will still need to know

Why fictions compete against reality

For dominance


Are we the laughing deluded children

Who exited the garden with a binary knowledge

Trauma bonded to a collapsing fiction

Born of a jealous God

That never lives up to reality?

Or is it that reality never lives up to our fictions?


Have we become the fiction of dead men

Rotted corpses living still

In the ready flesh of able bodies

Creeped by fear into a corner?


To the rat, the scientist is God

To the scientist, the rat is reality

To reality, the experiment is a fiction

To a fiction, a person is a host


Stories are parasites

Agents act at their behest


Will we give agency to language

In a land of illusions

Ceaselessly searching

For a comfortable fiction

To take the reigns?


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