AS IF

AS IF

as if
my little voice
can help you

give you succor
support or comfort
or any
help at all

my little
angry voice

vicious in
it contempt
for all that
stands against
a true rebirth
for
all humanity

a savage, barbarian voice
making a nonsense
of all its learning

deep in
empathy

everything it has learnt
from our cerebral
pagan ancestry

dictated
by all that has
arrived courtesy of the crazy god,
the prototype of
all resurrected gods

god of music, madness, intensity,
ecstasy
democracy and
the vine

DITHYRAMB

DITHYRAMB

god of the sky
god of the soil

dismembered god
reborn in the fire

your gifts:
tragedy, ecstasy,
drunkenness

curses and blessings
set our triumphs
our limitations

energy
that electrifies

energy that
destroys

you ask us to revere you
then destroy us for
doing so your song

sweet dithyramb
capturing the balance of
all our
equivalences
our dialectic
of extremes

all our pain, intensity,
destruction and desire