Closer You Get

Inspired by Flloyd Brown

I closed my eyes
and saw
The closer you got
The farther I was
The path undulating
Heathen sunsets
The yellowish hills
Of an agonizing grace.

I saw still further
Fossils amidst fogs
A majestic winter
branches blanched in
Bleak smog

A golden sweet summer
of sweethearts on roof
Then a fall into ocean's
soft cloven hooves

Of a world in departure
from soft moment we met
And a dead half life later
In storms my fate...

The closer you get
The farther my
closed eyes can see
A light stricken blindness
The masking unease

All Hallows eve
Such craven beliefs

A masjid a mandir
In bas relief
Aspiring church
Graves staunch and stark

And the underlying belly
Of it all
Makes my heart
Lurch.

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