[Share] A Friend With Benefits, Mark Fredrik Gumban, 06/28/2005

A Friend With Benefits
Mark Fredrik Gumban

Why?
During the temporal stasis of one's comprehension
As each others' appendages dance in the air,
Does this question beckon before me,
Interrupting my attempts to catch a glimpse of my other's
Mind-manifesting and dripping visage

Why ask why?
Is it the appearance?  The appearance of the stretch
Marks behind countless trysts,
Or perhaps, the appearance of what seems to be
The gross lacking of an outlook
Held by the majority.

Morality?
An abstraction of what they say
Is the firm absolute.  But is it not, merely,
An end of the scale that penetrates both
The creative and passive, serving as a constituent
Of the thesis for

The truth?
My reason is to simply relive that split-
Second when the gates of heaven shatter and
Welcome me upon the clouds of nine
As the trembling fluidic energies of creation
Fuel my eternal search

For purpose?
Within the tapestry of this existence I know
There is a part that I am obliged to fulfill,
And deep inside the shaft of one's psyche
Something had liberated this impression unto me as
My one true bliss


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Mark Fredrik Gumban is a member of Pinoy Poets.  All rights are to the author.  Posted with Pinoy Poets 28 June 2005.

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--andoy
28 June 2005