{"id":1379,"date":"2016-09-09T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/2014-2015\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:49:57","slug":"amalgam-by-enrique-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/amalgam-by-enrique-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Amalgam by Enrique Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath my feet I muddle the dirt between my toes<br \/>\nlike the waves beat rocks within their seas,<br \/>\nI root into the earth and revel beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>The breeze catches on my nose,<br \/>\ncarrying with it the sultry lullaby of a memory,<br \/>\nand it erupts from the foreground into my vision,<br \/>\nthat like glass I see it through.<\/p>\n<p>I burn with the fire in my heart,<br \/>\nI melt with the ice on my skin,<br \/>\nI strengthen with the tungsten ore upon mine hands,<br \/>\nand I rise with the tide,<br \/>\nonly to sink like lead to the bottom of the well,<br \/>\nand quake like the earth I know well enough to dwell ons<br \/>\npast.<\/p>\n<p>Be one,<br \/>\nBe wholly,<br \/>\nentirely consumed with the fate of the world,<br \/>\namalgamating into the palms of these hands<br \/>\nthe rudimentary blood of the world,<br \/>\nburns its course and scars the mother that birthed it<br \/>\nfrom her core.<\/p>\n<p>The wind cries out and dips on the wings of a swallow<br \/>\nbecoming whole and one in its breadth and everlasting breath,<br \/>\nThe rain tears up into the soil that consumes it,<br \/>\nthey\u2019re objective viewpoints now a calm same.<\/p>\n<p>And I,<br \/>\nno,<br \/>\nwe as one see the cycle of our earth as we all become one,<br \/>\nthe earth in our bones,<br \/>\nthe water in our veins,<br \/>\nthe wind in our lungs,<br \/>\nthe fire in our hearts,<br \/>\nwe burn, we crash, we quake, we sunder,<br \/>\nlike the atoms that came together forming the elements<br \/>\nthat make us we know now 13.7 billion years ago.<br \/>\nAll of this,<br \/>\nis just a faint memory of how the elements will shape us<br \/>\nin their hearthan wonderland,<br \/>\nas we,<br \/>\nI, see this cycle of burning,<br \/>\nthis cycle of reform and reprise,<br \/>\nthis cycle so subatomic going barely unnoticed,<br \/>\nbut duly less than rarely seen.<\/p>\n<p>Fire burn bright the hearth of the heart,<br \/>\nWind blow south the fear of sovereignty\u2019s will,<br \/>\nWater spring forth from eyes in the wake of beauty,<br \/>\nStone harden the frames flesh will bare to hang from notwithstanding the particles of this world<br \/>\ntill the next.<\/p>\n<p>Be one,<br \/>\nBe wholly,<br \/>\nentirely consumed with the powerful gratuitous crackle and sundered<br \/>\nfire by the substances coursing through us,<br \/>\nallowing everlasting ever shining life and will,<br \/>\nthe rudimentary blood of this earth is within us,<br \/>\njust as it is beyond the open breadth and orifice of visions<br \/>\nwe wade through,<\/p>\n<p>Dear amalgam of metal and air, fluid and stone,<br \/>\ncarbon and sulfur,<br \/>\nthis is what it means to be a being within this world of beautiful cruelty<br \/>\nsleeping in the arms of nature,<br \/>\nand we accept it sweet amalgam,<br \/>\nThat we have to notice that we,<br \/>\nare gifted by the elements rudimentary, mental, and physical,<br \/>\nthat we are gifted as human beings,<br \/>\nabsolute predators with no enemies but the world herself along with her children that make her,<br \/>\nand those who lie in this world.<\/p>\n<p>We all become one,<br \/>\nthe amalgamation of everything<br \/>\ngood and evil,<br \/>\nBeautiful and ugly,<br \/>\n13.7 billion years ago we are one as we are today,<br \/>\nwe are made of the same elements of the stars and that we know<br \/>\nbirthed by our mother,<br \/>\nthe universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beneath my feet I muddle the dirt between my toes like the waves beat rocks within their 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