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On what authority do circuits swirl —
— upon which digits rare,
do regal rings soft-glint with pow'r,
tracing through the air
their paths prescribed?
Against which ailing fallacy?
To remedy which weak
and failing strand — Infinity,
do you not stand or speak
but through these mouths —
upon these feet?
Do you not feel, but just disport
through pangs of flesh and wayward romp
through mortal shades and deathly hues
of all the formal, frigid pomp
of human life?
To what fell end from risen aim
do all these days of living tend?
In what shone sector of the spiral arm
do we reside now — do we mend
or further fragment the divide
of the divine from its great gem
as it traces paths prescribed
along the loops of space and rhy'm:
what good, what ill, what consequence
do all our circuits circumvent —
on what authority?
words and images by @d-pend
created for HIVE on Nov. 29, 2020.