Ground Level

Ely Ryan
Ely Ryan
Jul 29, 2017 · 2 min read

the magnitude
of the poetry holding me
got me moving internally too

Call it Thirty-Two

Call it Life Process
Machine-
movement of Truth

What it DO

Digest
Push it through

all these Karmas
What am I do?!

I’m part of you!

I ain’t here to harm
You are my root!

In truth
Forever charmed
In Truth

Aye
I
Let it unfold

This origami
Got me knotted up!

But this orgami got me
FLYING so now what?

Eye
Ear
Hand
Tongue— BODY

I am body embodied
I am the Spirit in this man ODDLY

World roofie in my cup!
Yup.

What a party
I can never get enough!

but

Somehow
Doing duty now

now

Only with some presence
Something of acceptance

Just a little bit

Let the bread leaven
Rising UP
To something better

Than the last dish

Rubberband-Man
STRETCH

See it all demand
Pushing to expand
Capacity with a every test!

LOVE

we’re just —
a conduit
Through us —
it goes

on traveling
having no

Beginning nor an End giving everything

Give EVERYTHING you can

And if you can’t…

Well

it’s TAKEN
Just for you to understand

We’re the same tree
So why you cut your own branch?

Damn
You’re FAMILY

You’re only killing yourself
Your own seed with your own hand

But

I ain’t here to preach
I’m just writing to a beat

For who am I
when I am just as ignorant?
Eating all that beef!

Getting bread
thinking that I’m
butter but I’m
stuck in
the same jam
the same mead mutter —

Lacking nourishment

like a feed
of bad thoughts
make your mouth squeeze
words to shit
let it ferment
till what you’re doing
turn toxic

You and I
We don’t learn so quick!

Obnoxious
Wordsmith

Hammer the grammar with no manners
Into something sharp

Weaponize the patterns till they gather and shatter
Into your own heart

Ah — found the lantern in the dark

never knew the light
till it bled through the insight
inside of what I write
let it shine — well we do alright

On the ground level
Lessons to bliss
You know
we wouldn’t have it any other way than THIS

Architects of mischief
And so it is.

Drink it all
Forgive it all
and stay in Awe
of the PROCESS

Moving down the stream
I don’t to need to protest where it leads

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