The expansion



My feelings
 have stopped at a point
 opposite or sideways to the mountains.

 They have been riveted there by such a standard pose
 that they have begun to be aware
 they are very high
 and it seems to them pointless
 to involve themselves with the scaling of low mountains.

 Despite all that
 living quietly and long-term
 this uncompromised spiritual situation
 lately they have begun to feel a certain irritation
 because no one is growing any longer.

 All are following the way of the Earth!

 And so mysterious, exotic in the light of the Moon
 and rationally optimistic
 easily read under the light of the Sun
 and with the same Conviction
 they pass into this brown band of the Earth
 by means of which through the simple gravity
 of protests over the Deserts
 you can fall into the World of the Dead
 but which has so easily and oddly
 been called the...Way of God.

 But God quarrels every day
 with the very height of his sentiments
 which are at an appalling distance from the Earth
 and high up there...in that free field of action
 seeing that the human presence is fruitless
 they return and pay homage to the old Phantoms
 made of tempests and winds
 explaining that all things human
 are of nothing more than earth.

 Because God had long ago stopped existing
 and you in order to avoid any kind of collision
 with the unsurmountable walls of Ephemeral Existence
 were lacking in the ambition to ascend...
 no one is going to prevent you in any case.

 But the most terrible thing is still
 the decisive descent to Earth.

 I`m afraid...and indeed I feel sorry
 for the people down there.

 I see clearly that they do not understand
 that the Divine Breath
 does not allow for any second Breath
 so that one might come face to face
 with that sudden descent of God
 to his old thoughts
 which are now rising up to receive him
 under the almighty flag
 of scientific advancement
 in order to inform him that the time has come
 to incarnate in the Body of the Planet
 that other Humanity...

 Which will be this selfsame Humanity
 which God recognises very well
 from the day when the host of mortals
 revealed that with all these oppositions
 it was difficult...
 thus free and beautiful to belong to one`s self...
 which is also the reason for his birth.
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXA XBXCA XXDDX E XXDDEFXXFG XXEDCXXDE XDXXH XE FB XIIHGXXXXXXF FXXAXXE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,203
Words 400
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 3, 5, 5, 1, 10, 9, 5, 2, 2, 12, 7

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