Poetry 51: Petty Praying Poet

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          How's overload be overpowered;
          when overlooking's the overdue
          of mental grasp for over-mending
          their mended craft over-truth,
          oh, mercy mercy, come cleansing
          the winding crashes I've done,
          of overfeeding what's so fed
          before depression gets fun;

          what poverty I've become;
          what intellectual poverty;
          have reigned aloud since my beginning
          of soul-submission to poetry;
          oh, poetry poetry, end these,
          these conscious wanting to pour
          defiled regrets of no substance
          for how's my sadness be floored;

          no, never when it's sunshine
          of plum aurora--I'm cryptic,
          of thirsty lurking now before
          the dying sunsets I'm lifting;
          but how petty lives the paradox,
          how petty praying's the poet
          for sacred healing of truth,
          never mending the truth for it;

          what chaos have I breathed
          when solitary I've been birthed,
          parading childhood through the years,
          I've finally mated with the earth;
          shall there be nothing I'd hope
          even mortality's coming,
          for what's awaiting be waited
          when nothing's answered my humming.

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