Choking on the Guts of God
by James J. Dye

Transport me to paradise,
to the happy hunting ground,
to the Shangri-la of utopias
where my fingers have been wound.

So skies are filled with polluted cries
across a vale after birth.
The highest heavens are disemboweled.
Its blood rains upon the Earth.

Many bites are taken from the apple
as the big blue marble rolls.
The atmosphere is dreamland fear
is the wind of God control.

And each rain drop is a star from a far
afterlife that is shaken.
And each torrent is the world’s spirit
explaining we’re mistaken.

We speak as if they rule creation
laid claim to the universe.
So wonderland is not beyond bliss
and clouds continue to burst.

An enchantment announces what will be
in the land of dust and mud.
For the Arcadia of ecstasy
the bloods of kingdoms flood.

Deluge downpours. Delusion drowns us
brimming over but they lied.
Patmos ends on the isle of cosmos
so the world wants genocide.

We eviscerated the promise land.
I have drunk some of Job’s tears.
The heat of hell is a coming darkness
for no one is left upstairs.

No life ever after or pearly gates
just cataracts in my eyes.
The only fate is death patiently waits.
Empyrean is a guise.

For the only thing raptured is the rain
threshing the floor and rafters
and the loam of the marl in the mold
of tomorrow before & hereafter.

The sand of the shore is taken with tides.
And that’s harmony to me.
The firmament of my eternal home
is eternity at sea.

Immortality killed morality
fairyland felicity.
And all they want is my totality
to be what they want me to be.

 

JAMES JASON DYE is a 26-year-old college student from Dubuque, Iowa. He is a new writer whose poetry can be found in various publications, including Ampersand, DOGZPLOT, Aphelion, Clockwise Cat, and Public Republic. He can be reached at james j dye [at] hotmail dot com or at his blog, jamesjdye.blogspot.com. You can download his free poetry e-book at poemhunter.com.

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