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The Stars, The Stratus, and the Orchid's Oath

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Published: Feb 18, 2012

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She has heard many a critical word
Recited, as if written upon papyrus in some godly verse
that she is forbidden to well, to swell with salty high tide,
to breach the levy with the perfect flood
As if viscous mud is of what is worst, what is a sin to abide

As if she is not to cry thunder, even as her pulse charges the lightning
She is not to bequeath her oath to the stratus
She is only to navigate by the much more divine stars, in their ceaseless, diluted nature of perfection,
in their terrible, constant glazing of the truth in unrelenting bright

Well, I beggeth to appease the differ, as the nebula never sought the green in growth
We are the helpless children of the flawed and flawless Earth,
and not of the beautifully distructive heavens
The clouding of the skies sought not to be the clouding of our vision, but to be neutral and natural in the lightest form of lead

I have sworn my oath to the stratus , filtered the rain in its blinding, revealing nature
and I have breached the levies of my own building with the perfect flood
and I have done so choking with the purest breath for my blood

The viscosity of the mud may aim to swallow, yet the footprints mark deeper than on stolid ground
It's creator, a deluge of blur, and of clarity, shall dilute its already straining reins upon your soul

So, in the peril of the monsoon, remember it is not the coming of solstice that beckons the bloom,
the green of growth

I know, and she shall remember, that the orchid is becoming by the becoming of her oath