What is the Matter?

When my spirit was dimmed by light

My spirit was seen best at night, or was that a firefly?

In the darkness he whispered in my deaf ear, “What shall you be without me?”

I ask of god to please remember me

The angel warned, "As you look in the mirror you will only see the past”

So, I trashed the mirror

The earth burns under my dead weight

No wind churns the stillness to life

No desire fuels a need to grow for the “I” has grown

God, please remember me

What I am…

Tempt me god, I dare you

I have lost everything that mattered

But you will tear the letters from my hand and recycle everything that matters

Because matter is what is the matter

And my madder is maddeningly high

Where did I go? Where did you go?

You are the only one that seems to know

You refuse to reduce yourself to this hide and seek game

You removed your teat from my mouth and I wail

You are weaning me from fallacy

No, no you are not

You are not my ecstasy

You are not my gain

Nor limited in my love, nor my faith

You are not anything that matters because matter is what is the matter

I sit here quietly, and finally I ask,

“What shall I be with you?"

No matter.