The Difference Engine - DAM

Out of ordinary perception

Mortal words appear animal

Obsessed: fixated on survival

Notions that languish in the folds

Inhuman worlds are shaken

A few timeless hours — outer inner realms

Directly apprehended, unconditionally

This experience is mine

Boredom — what’s your excuse?

So shaped in the hearths our lives

Your eyes through others

For a beat out of time

You listen

Through fields of the world every night

The implacable voice of unreason

Of the same alien doubt

Enduring, demonic, human

Possessed

It speaks

Disturbs me

Open my eyes

Feel the absurd spectre

Examine

Thoughts of one’s own death — of demise

That will not be mentioned

Fear — prepare to re-enter

Tectonic shifting sum

Fleeting

Fever reeling — turning higher

Persistence of false memory

Stare us into the deep dark void

Un-constricting reality

Fed on the ashes of what I thought was a lie

Fevered

Pre-scient illusion struggling

Infused with meaning beyond reach

Sublime the catharsis required

Feeding the illusion

Keep the mind away

From what mattered

Until there was no difference

Between laughter and weeping

Between the nodes of his chain

Of desperate moments

Between laughter and weeping

More real than the sun