Poem VIII - Esoteric Art [Back catalogue]

Words and thoughts: I shall bend and mould to my Will.
The cryptic and hidden: I shall prise wide and imbibe;

And deep inside I recognise and affirm the plurality of men I am and can be.
To set free and let wail the manifestations and fantasies that swell within me.

To kiss the snake and embrace the world,
Plunge into bliss and the million folds
Of love and time—into all things that are mine—

Whilst up above the stellar host will know no equal to their own light
Other than my radiating and emanating, illuminating orb burning so bright.

Without fear I am, with potent Will at my very core;
Without constraint my consciousness shall ever soar:
From inflamed Venus to belligerent Mars;
From aureoled Helios to Selene up in stars.

I wish to live unabashed and fully,
Be at once Dionysian and Apollonian—truly;
Unlashed, able to evolve and thrive,
To explore the labyrinth of my questioning mind—
And what infinite wonders may I there find?

Thus to cradle the Pillars of Creation
And witness the Universal cessation.

M.M. — October MMIX; amended Februarius MMX; edited, title revised December MMXI