The unrelenting passage of time

Monolithic

Inertial 

Tyrannical

Immutable

Compelled by its torrential flow

 

My past forever written

In memory

In my causal part

Of the serpentine, involuted 

Progression of Things

 

Words I cannot unspeak

Irrevocable choices I made

 

I am,

The consequences of my being are,

Ineffable

 

Though someone I do not recognize

Moves through my past in my body

Borrowing on bad credit

Against my future good name

 

(What is my name?)

 

A blind steward

The only keeper

Eternally carries me to this 

Exact point 

In space

In time

 

Unrecognizable 

If we met

 

The horror

Looking in to my own eyes

At my hands

All the pieces replaced

Frankenstein’s Monster

The assembly of a thing

I do not know

Or remember

 

I have an ancient name

Written in a secret fire

A licking, crawling name

A chaotic scrawl

Spoken in plasma

Winding through helix

 

It is my father’s name

It is my mother’s name

It is the name of an archaic acid 

Feeding off a sulfur vent

 

I do not know it 

 

If I knew it

I could not speak it

 

If I could speak it

The Gates of Time

Would be open to me

A singularity

Everything at once

 

The Eagle

The Crab

The Pillars of Heaven

 

Wrapping into the third eye

Like an endlessly recycling 

Mobius strip

A fractal repetition

 

I would be God

 

I am no god

I do not want to be

 

I am an animal

An organism

An environment 

Turned in on itself

 

I cannot change

What I cannot change

 

What I am