Surrender (Animals)

2025

the known universe, photo by Matt Duncan

We are exhausted but we know
If we do not surrender we must needs be
Sundered 
And forget ourselves as Animals
We will forget that we are Animals

So we rock and rock and rock together
And you knock and knock and knock against
The door through which new souls are sent
Sacrificed again and again and again 
On the altar of my body

In the manmade meter of our automatic movements
I feel the rhythm of each throbbing pulse 
Like tides like quickened breath as we convulse
A mirror of the Mystery itself

The ebb and flow eternal 
The universe breathes in
And out 

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