legacy

I am him

and my mother

and something new never before seen

I carry his weight and my mother's

and my own never before seen

but the same story of every man before me and every man after

My burden is light for sure

but it is the only burden I know

and havent I said that it is poison to compare

but compared to the beaten neglected too soon touched

but it is the only burden I know

and therefore dangling down millstone strong

to pull me off the cedar bridge

and I lead a charmed life

the cellar is only dark without the torch light

and who would chose to walk in unending twilight

babel or temple

i want to be great because

i want to be worthy of creation i want

to show that this kit can build a tower

and be ravished upstream and grizzly eaten

i want that tower to be appreciated, first by the tool giver

but evidenced by my community is that the praise of men?

i cannot quite see the selfless life realized

in the pursuit of greatness

maybe selflessness is not self-diminishing

but right opinion, the positioning of self

as created, gifted, and fragile, a sum of

circumstance and features

selflessness is reaching for the magnificent as an

expression of obligation to an artist-teacher God

no, not obligation, but obedience, chosen from understanding

proportion and mountains and tired muscles and good sleep and

a days good work

diminishing is perhaps a great offense.

look fat queen, immovable queen,

we have carried the dirt and built a palace,

let us be your chamber maid, give me your white eggs,

we will clean the carcass and the wooded floor

and multiply and clean the wooded floor

we will do as you wish fat queen

not knowing that our order plays a part,

in order and meaning,

i am just carrying your white egg.

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