New poem: "The Spirit of the Depths"

 

The Spirit of the Depths

 

Lecture after lecture after lecture,

podcast after podcast after podcast, and

interview after interview after interview

he says a variation, or brilliant iteration,

of the same old truths, forging, forging,

and more forging, forever forging new

rules to live by to find the way to his,

and our true self (he has forged 24 rules

so far; 12 to ward off the chaos, and 12

more for good measure); it’s getting quite

fatiguing, listening to him speaking,

and I`m wondering why I even bother.

But being a memoirist and a poet, I have

to stay abreast of today`s thought process,

and bring some measure of clarity to

the spirit of the depths.