The Epistemology of Heresy

Faith is the lie you told yourself to remember–
Times fickle, forgotten
bereaved, time-swallowed
despondent

Faith is the truth keeping you up at night–
lies of omnipotence
endless scriptures of conjecture
myopic

Faith is the facade powering the motor of the world–
dogmas of politics corrupt
agendas heretical
ignorant

Faith is knowledge for the disenfranchised–
power for authoritarians and aristocrats
illusions for tethered minds
Tantalus

Faith is guilt coercing morality–
barricading banality
obfuscating clarity
disillusion

Faith is the labyrinth–
ensnaring logical thought
tantalizing endless ambrosia
pestilence

Faith is the greatest trick

A Transgressive Diagnosis

Late shift begins:
Death by repetition,
A re-worked dementia—
Standard
Operating
Peregrinations

Lambasted for the green
--I’d burn every tree—
To jest at being free!

Life: an indentured servitude
Of sorts.

I sold my soul at three,
Once I realized tears
Are currency.
Never dried-eyed again,
The doc’ diagnosed me—
Greed.