You Have Within You A Babel of Cultures

I

A tower of contradiction

A brick for stone

cold confusion

One a brick of fear, on

Top of that is anger, cemented

Rock by rock

II

an elaborate system but

you lay victim to crumbled stone

III

Once I knew

Or once I thought.

Austin claimed you can never know anything. For this

Great philosopher, I reinvent myself daily.

IV

Danger like the rain

To mudbricks exposed

Is assumption

V

And so you circumvent

Break bricks of reason

Deny.

Deny.

Accept.

You are unbending, instead

You build upon yourself

A brick for rock

hard resolve

one a brick of valor, on

top of that is compassion, cemented.

Rock by rock

A tower of contradiction.

VI

Cracked and split

How much weight

Can your foundation hold?

VII

Autonomy refers to selfish claim

Your Babel a self infliction

Your God a selfish God

Intrinsically, self-destructive.

VIII

In the fertile plain

The Euphrates tell of broken bricks.

And

This is all that remains.