Longo-Geremia

LIKE A RIVER Like a river raging to Ocean’s Deep I rush to find my destiny Victim of my own human nature. A frail and wondrous reflection Of Creation. Unwilling player in some Cosmic Puppetry. I am here and here I stay Committed to the end Until that day I separate. AMEN Sign in to see full entry.

WHAT SENSE THIS? What sense this Memory. A haunting melody Played over and over again. No bliss.No happiness Remembering times when. Gone are the dead Silence eternal Love lost in soulful wanderings Of the heart. I was. I have been, I am. Moments wasted in “then. Shadows passing through Ripping at... Sign in to see full entry.

BLOODLINE II From my father I learned the Mediterranean sense Of loyalty to family No matter what. From my mother I learned endurance To harsh reality No matter what. From both a sadness I had never known When they were gone. I am the sum total of all those who went before me. My idiosyncrasy favors... Sign in to see full entry.

BLOODLINE I’ve lost my power and grace But Not my honor and dignity As I suffer my own mortality And The singular complexity of my nature. The chosen one am I of the three Lost in the hold of heredity. Betrayal of a bloodline Of mind to body. But then you see You all live in me still. The Beast has... Sign in to see full entry.

FEARFUL ASSYMETRY Strange and fearful asymmetry this Life’s unevenness. Free choice and retribution Predetermination and Freedom of Will Until We sin for being human. Evil for good Treachery for innocence. No sense to the Golden Rule. Fools Are we who fall into ironic misconceptions Enduring pain... Sign in to see full entry.

KEEPER OF THE FLAME Who will remember me when the years have passed Who will be the keeper of my flame Who will feel my energy wandering in Infinity Who will know my name. Who will see my humanity My love and affection. Centuries wrap our souls in oblivion. Memory is our immortality. We slowly fade... Sign in to see full entry.

IT’S NOT IN THE DYING It’s not in the dying You understand That haunts me. It is the question of my immortality. My flesh is too human to comprehend The Spirit, the Soul, Eternity. I am pleasure. I am pain. I have a beginning. I have an end. I only know what I see and what I feel. My mind reels on... Sign in to see full entry.

I WONDER IF ELEPHANTS PRAY I am a wondrous member of humankind The best of His creations I possess A heart, mind, spirit and soul The latter a matter of distress. Have you seen a spirit or soul of late. Up for an unsettling debate. I am a creature who can feel Joy. pleasure, pain and dread And like... Sign in to see full entry.

BLASPHEMY I am a model of His Creation A perfect imperfection With hopes of some sublime resurrection When all Life’s foolery is done. I’ve always prayed to the One and only One. But Echoes of silence reverberate Through this empty space. At times I curse my being. Sick and sinking in my soul I... Sign in to see full entry.

THE DRAGON’S FIRE Words and thoughts linger Frozen in Time and Space Eternal Energy Forever in this place And into Infinity. It only takes a memory or two To feel the soul Burn like flesh Again From undeservèd unkindnesses. Delicate Spirits We Feeling the Dragon’s Fire Of another’s inhumanity.. Envy... Sign in to see full entry.