This will be the gentlest poem you have ever read
It will carry only the weight of a sunset
The fingertips of the Words will be almost insensible
Hovering just a fraction of a millimeter above your skin
Leaving you uncertain whether you were touched or only felt the vibrant heat of the Words as they passed through
This poem will not move the World around in any way
You can read it and be safe
It is painted with watercolors and sung in major
The message inside these velvet Words should not disturb your calm
The gentle drops of a quiet rain in may
The slipstream of a rainbow.
But everything you know must fall
The bricks of every building you have raised must come crashing to the ground
Every metal forged shall melt and flow across the land that will become barren
Fires will be everywhere
The blood that is not spilled will boil in the veins
Stretched out in Time and in Space you have erected towers of wisdom and palaces of believe in which you hide from the brutality of your fate:
The utter loneliness of your being, the neverending striving for some contact, some touch of another human being
The raw deal that you are dying
That meaning is not
That the soul is a fantasy
All this you have been escaping, draping yourself in borrowed narratives with roots that are not yours
The withering stories that leaves you longing for the soft light of childhood
Tear down the shelter
Let me hear the roar of the thousand stones hitting the dusty ground
And when the dust settles you will find yourself standing there
Naked, covered in the dust of a World that is gone
And you will look for shelter but find none
And so you start building again
With sticks and rocks and no mortar
And your fear will make you wander on your bare and bleeding feet
You will look for water, for the Well
And of course you will find it
And the water will be cool and clear and tingle like silver
Gentle like the drops of a quiet rain in may
And as you drink you watch with drowsy eyes the back of the man that walks away from the Well
A book in one hand, a flask in the other
Very intriguing - I liked this a lot! Looking forward to reading more...