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Atostrial // pink moon

by Lorin Drexler · Jun 29, 2021

Atostrial – Featured Artist

pink moon

the echoes from the pink moon
are like calm and disorienting thoughts
erasing themselves at midnight
instinctive and wine-drunk
warm and lazy
slipping into your dreams before rem 
with subtle yet dynamic frequencies 
wishing for themselves—the thoughts mind you
to conclude 
but they don't
they return every morning
making you more important
than you are
trudging on like feathers
everlessly swimming through the sky
wondering on the interrogative if and wh-
they will land
so this can once and for all
be put to rest
i've called to the gods and they've given
me answers
all of which appearing presumably true but
the timelines are vague and withstanding immediate volition
life is but a dream but living... 
such a hyper-glyphic tribulation
 
i walk along this road
that disappears into the horizon
where the mountains hold the 
moon like a crystal ball
there is a moon within the moon
and behind that
something both seen and unseen
telling both future and past
however
it's just something i see
i'm not really that interested in it
i wish i cared more about these ruminations but
watching the calm and disorienting
horizon is enough
 
as a wise visionary once said
everything is past
past is past
present is past
future is past
it is all past
 
            graveyard
            mind is a graveyard
            it is wisdom not to cling to the present
            whatever you do is passing in the past

            when i started was the future
            passed through the present
            entered into the past
            it is all past
 
i spot a flock of birds passing through
the inside of this vision like a silhouette that contains something
meaningful i can't yet understand
i'm sure the birds are flocking
somewhere for some distinct reason
and are content doing so by nature
i admire them
i try hard not to envy them
but they—the thoughts mind you 
slip through the cracks
the tepid meanderings
names
timelines
hells
the pretend elysium
ordinary things with unordinary feelings
perceptions of good and bad and god 
and people with toy opinions about this whole thing
thinking they're more germane
than they are
trying to understand possibilities of how
these remote perceptions can exist outside of one another
beyond the circumstantial 
it is all irrelevant to the greater gimmick  
but thinking makes it so
 
we were once relieved from our pressures of living
but now we are postulated by the opus of life
demanding its full attention
i'm drunk
unfilled
destined to be one with
the universe
and a solitary figure in existence
preyed upon and prayed upon
 
my love is there for all
it is shining upon me
it is how i find
my purpose
it is the destination of my repentance
it is my forgiveness to those
that fall short of the truth
and myselves
in the static spectrum of 
the ecclesiastical natures
of the human being
understanding life is both a fantasy
and a game of reality 
shedding tokens of good and bad and god
a vision that faces the perceptions of
the universe as an expansive eternity
and
one that finds life as a minuscule
existence that continues almost invisibly
and will most certainly be forgotten
 
ants on an anthill
marching both with and without a purpose
within the dream
within the dream
within the dream

by LORIN DREXLER


https://www.instagram.com/atostrial/

Collage Artist • Graphic Designer


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