I Am Cold Lightning

I am God's experience, I wonder how my poetry breathes into you... I hear souls scream like diamonds breaking, I see bodies move slowly into smooth suffering, I want life to love my sorrow, I am a victory alive in volatile grace... I pretend that fatality is a warm mercy, I feel that I have a right to express my pain, I touch the heartbeats of hope with hesitant eyes, I cry blood of sensitive awareness, I am alive in the heat of paused death... J.A.B. 2022