OF PONTIFICATION'S WANT

Words, the chisel,

ideas, the enchanted stone,

community, the form,

a formless form,

made of a gnawing perception.

Gasping at the concourse of representation,

processing procedural internalization,

the culprit of cadences,

monitoring limiting persuasion.

Eradicating oppression,

with an iron fist,

a gauntlet of power.

Weaponized inquiry,

cast in ivory handled swords of doom,

folded metal not brittle to avarice,

and the comportment of preemptive revenge.

Adept at the adoption of will,

born first formed of integrity and passion for the sentient stone,

from vessels bound to relinquish discourse.

the shape of uncritical reflections,

of the promise of premises predicting preparations,

persuasive and perforce predictable,

pervading pleasures,

and profuse preemption,

of pontification's want.

Poem and image © 2016 by Peter Kaleb Theodoropoulos aka Rockwell Wilder