This cinematic poem accompanies the Ordinals Inscription by Laurence Fuller
Dripping on the marina
was dissolution,
For how long had this
been going on? A carousel,
a harbor of spies.
The world a pristine
mirage.
A yard of windows—
Either reflecting, the
surface of things,
Or rewriting the legend.
The Good, The True,
And The Beautiful.
For beauty it must be
drawn—
The arrows in the forge,
Not a single one
left in his quiver
The empty container
as Justice left his fingers
and one by one—
You know not
what this man has lived.
Great expectations were
placed
A stack of letters,
A photograph from many years
before.
An art collection hung
above their door.
The scars above his eyes
told of an unspoken law.
Silent and wry,
Something ancient.
The black clouds
parted again and—
Something woke him
from a dream.
What he discovered there
was the key unto
his sleep—
That the watching
eyes,
Did watch him in
the deep.
He was striding in upon
a donkey.
There was at the
centre of the city
a conclave taking
place.
The brash, the
bravest and the famous
That knew the lines
and how to speak
it—
But not the life and
how to live it.
That technique was
a pill
swallowed and stuck—
Lodged in its
throat, it stayed.
They could not speak
no more with danger—
Nor with tongue,
Like a piano that couldn’t
play a song.
Its keys did tighten
Every seed planted
did bloom at once
as he stepped
forward to the mark—
It’s time.
Around it’s old flag
did circle.
He’d known them all
from afar.
He’d seen them rise
And taken a knee
Before each their star.
Watched each rise in
glory,
Watched their success
as they told their stories.
Watched them claim
their masks were
great.
But none did have
the mark of fate.
He whispered without
them hearing,
Have fun.
Enjoy your time
in the sun.
For soon the
night will come.
And in the good
morning you will
see
what has bloomed.
In every seed,
you can gasp and
you can steal.
But nothing matters
for what is real.
It’s time for
The good, the
true, and the
beautiful.
~ LF
Cinematic poetry by Laurence Fuller
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