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Poetry
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Posterus est iam.
Ó Adam Donaldson Powell 2006
Just for a moment
I surreptitiously
Slip through the
Portals of your
Watery eyes and
Catch a glimpse of
The celestial encoding
Of the Matrix.
I wander
Into the light of
Eternal memory
Reverberating
The sacred mantra
Deafening my disillusionment
With the illusion of the
Labyrinth’s dead ends
And in my stupor I
Recall the last words
Of a forgotten incarnation,
Wilting as a black rose
Under a peach-colored
Sky – cloudless and still –
A mere heartbeat
Beyond time;
Echoing its low-grade pulse
As I frantically
Run up and down the
Alleys of La Recoletta
Trying to dodge the raindrops.
And just as you speak
I find myself on my hands and
Knees facing my epitaph:
“Posterus est iam”,
And quite uncontrollably a single
Teardrop overflows the
Pocket of my left eye as I
Recapture our own
Generic moment in
Shared space and time.
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