The Human Experience in Four Progressions: Life Beyond Whole (Second Progression)

This is the second of a Four Progression Poem entitled The Human Experience. 

The first progression, Amidst Dreams Where We Leap, may be found at the following link:

http://theshapeofdesire.blogspot.com/2014/01/poem-human-experience-in-four.html

Thanks for taking a moment or two out of your busy day to reflect on my poetry. . . feel free to comment!!

The Human Experience: Life Beyond Whole

(Second Progression) by Biz Gainey

Unripe fruit, aloft in sultry wind song slinks; 

Disturbs delight, masking death;
Seduced to distortion;

Life Beyond Whole

I Am.

          Desire
                    Reach
                              Grasp
                                             Take.
                                             Life.
                              Beyond
                     Whole

           Now

Am I.

Flattened
     is the leap which sprung once robust. 

Clinging
     is the grasp which once gently held.
Accusing
     drapes fingers once awash in love's caress, Pointing
backforth and back again.

Seeking to undo, unwed.
Loosed. is once tethered trust in fear’s soft deathbed.
Fault en grafts bodies once sanctified.

Aimless eyes wander; they wonder ‘Beyond sight, what remains?’
Not one is now known, where one is now unknown.
The fading path has darkened in sight’s last breathless gasp.

Not far fallen from the tree are we who've been loved

          and loved 

          deeply known Love.

Desire's distortion now borne by we of distorted desire; 

Darkness has swamped; 

Dim is the light;

Life Beyond Whole.
©Biz Gainey, 2014

This Spotlight of the Ignored

A few days ago I sitting in a local Starbucks busily hacking away at my computer.  A commotion at the door interrupted my thoughts and drew my attention.  The commotion was created by a woman whose body has been distorted by life and left her with a limp that made walking difficult, to say the least.  I was struck by how her entrance changed the tenor of the environment.  This poem attempts to convey some of my reflections regarding what I noticed.