Epigram ‘n Aphorism Samwiches

sentience in humanity

a revised version already exists in my private collection:
sentience/in/humanity

asomatous and corporeal
within bathroom tile seeped thoughts

a sentient boy writing odes
to the dead, the living, on walls

to any who would hear
one so disconnected and alive

he had to believe, follow passion consciously
but there were detractors:

wolves amid sheep as sheep
who daily fleeced his dreams

faith and trust lost in humanity
in a paneled bedroom walled by his father

insulation, a stereo and headphones
transported a fractured soul floating

toward immortality. Visions in darkest nights
he eventually drifted to sleep by three.

His eyes now open each morning
visualize energy revitalized all around

he just had to close those lids
isolate in his ever wood surround

with towering pine reminders
on a cavern floor, a code for his world

had been without order. Without,
not within. And in nature, dreams

re-inspired all the more. Crackle
fire, wisp camp smoke, stars slot

in a canopy of dead-less night.
Inside his mind amid the world --

a mindful soul balanced, wandering,
no longer retreating from freedom.


4.7.23

a bit sentimental and environmental in the soft head of a soft wood (let there never be another 'software' update

SYNONYMS FOR asomatous (that my "old" computer wants to auto-correct)

nonmaterial
aerial
airy
apparitional
celestial
disembodied
dreamy
ethereal
ghostly
metaphysical
psychic
shadowy
spectral
spiritual
subjective
supernatural
unearthly
unworldly
wraithlike

to name a few that are comparable in this usage