Fear is created to keep us
from loving thy neighbor.

You and me,
we are the same.
Just connect and see,
we are no different.
But, whose to gain
from this manipulation?
If you check and see,
it's not your neighbor.
So, then who?

No, it's not you.

A graduate degree and
what did it teach me?

People are squeeezed,
and the solution starts
at the tippy top
or the rock bottom.

Spir is to breathe
Spirit is life force
Spiral is movement

to breathe in—
inspire, giving life

to breathe out—
expire, death

to breathe through—
perspire, sweat

to breathe together—
conspire, group think.

to breathe towards—
aspire, want, to choke.

Roots hold deep meaning.

This.
These.
That.
Those.
Me.
You.
My
Clothes.
There.
Here.
Where?
Near.
An overture of overthought
echoes echoes
ear ear
to to
ear. ear.

A thin, drifting scent slams me back to my mother and that putrid floral perfume she loved.

Then, for a single moment,
the room softened and all I could smell was warm patchouli—
the version of her I almost miss.

We wired the forests, burned the sky, watched the world buckle—
and still had the nerve to call it a dawn.

A forgotten Tiny Prophecy of Ruin tells of "The Thickest Species", by Cole McNamara / perilpoet.

Read the Warning:
mercurialsilver.com/blogs/tiny-prophecies/the-thickest-species

Ship of Theseus—
mercurial molecules in a flame.
Like a flame, I am never the same.