10-27-2011, 08:41 PM
flowers can be beautiful when you don't believe in god.
stripped of intelligent design, trees & sky
compel the eye like dumb adonises,
wandering with perfect limbs, exquisite genitalia,
through the back garden. i have drunk from all these founts,
trees & sky & sex, worn roses as spec-
tacles. studied grecian art & loved
a thousand football teams. been caesar both in love & hate,
betrayed by everyone, but death. when you don't believe in god
flowers can be beautiful, though after sampling each shade,
every tree & sky, & the latter still emits no divinity,
then is the time to leave beauty, & study eternity.
stripped of intelligent design, trees & sky
compel the eye like dumb adonises,
wandering with perfect limbs, exquisite genitalia,
through the back garden. i have drunk from all these founts,
trees & sky & sex, worn roses as spec-
tacles. studied grecian art & loved
a thousand football teams. been caesar both in love & hate,
betrayed by everyone, but death. when you don't believe in god
flowers can be beautiful, though after sampling each shade,
every tree & sky, & the latter still emits no divinity,
then is the time to leave beauty, & study eternity.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe