Awoken Call
I remember the time
before I was born.
I remember impending departure time
immediately before. Soul sent.
I was suddenly shockingly born
so clearly. Hail Mary. Mother of God.
Gathered assemblage collectively
communicates silent vibrations.
Before launching soul’s journey.
Before my spirit readied, assimilated,
released, enters laboured. Earthbound.
Contraction’s baby birthing channel.
Time fading back folding inward
internalized eternity rapidly receding.
Strange no martyr sympathetic tears
shed formulated held back. Though transfiguration
soul destined. Upon crucifixion transfixed torment.
Bound. Presently held Prometheus bound fast.
In flypaper sticky. Dense transfixed earth plane.
Inescapably hedonistic obsequious souls
suffer serfdom earth downcast disinherited.
In rebellion recipient renegade rotating sphere.
Already memory absorbent fog
rendering forgetfulness closes in.
Condemning pride corrosively enters
about to be human formed reduced being.
Sin infectious sentence. Granted anchors
fetus to accursed former paradisaic Eden.
Did I desire to mortal bound come?
To fulfill poetic communion shared grace?
Delivered into divine purpose.
I remember not. Yet I deem I did.
I remember only. Love lost fellowship?
A creature warning it will be hard.
Moments prior to mortal departure
bound birth. Gathered enlightened
souls grieve not. At newly infant
inherited assumed apostle baseness.
With a single timeless protracted breath.
I leave upon chosen reseeded return.
Sated earthly curse enfleshed. Satanic
pride chokes human base born down.
An obliterating quicksand
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poem by Terence George Craddock
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