ASCENT
- Feb 13
- 1 min read
By Lizzie Alexander
Who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
He is losing, involuntarily, his recollections now
Falling sands pouring towards inversion
Grains of ghoulish recollections downward draining
Neurodegenerative erosion of remembrance
She is finding, involuntarily, wholer recollections now
Falling sands piling upwards reaching
Grains of ghoulish recollections mercilessly mounting
Therapeutic exhumation of remembrance
Shared recollections shifting
In estranged parallel
Thy will be done
Forgive those who trespass against us
He is losing, painedly, his was known self
Blown sands scattering the long-ago footprints
Terrorful impressions windswept to annihilation
Demented obliteration of deeds disavowed
She is finding, painedly, her unknown self
Blown sands exposing the tightly-buried chest
Terrorful impressions windswept to revelation
Ameliorative resuscitation of parts disavowed
Pinioned selves reshaping
In severed synchronicity
Deliver us from evil
Give us this day
He is losing, irrepressibly, his words and that voice
Flooding sands engulf yesterday’s dunes
Unspeakable retentions drown in night
Atrophic dissolution of flow
She is finding, irrepressibly, her voice through these words
Flooding sands float tomorrow’s raft
Unspeakable retentions exhale in light
Restorative resurrection of flow
Unclasped words moving
In untangled assent