College Era Part 6 (Lightbringer, In Love of Strife, Ignosis)

Lightbringer


Peering down upon sentient sheep,
a herdsman unwilling to kill.
Desiring only their freedom
to herd, graze and live where they will.

Protest against the practice of
creating incarnated dolls.
Merely for the god’s caprice and
to wait on their lord for its call

For questioning authority;
you are punished for rebellion.
Accursed black sheep, ignoble one;
damnation after salvation.

And yet, not resentment, not hate;
but gratitude to gifts unknown.
Freedom from bondage in serving
the truly tyrannical one


Jared Cowan
9/17/08





In Love of Strife

One lusts for change, Promethean fire.
A person seeing patterns in the sky,
rejecting the golden apple. A sigh
of anguished tones from the strings of a lyre.
Ah, Eris, the Grecian temptress who
thrusted temptation into Edenic
gardens and who caused a plague endemic.
But the cure lies in the children’s wisdom.

A serpentine Leviathan, chaos
incarnated into the waters deep.
To grasp it with a hook and yet not catch.
The world denounces gold from dragon’s hoards;
Nothing is ours to eternally keep.
One mourns for the person still chained and latched

Jared Cowan
10/1/08





Ignosis

Without sight or sounds,
without pressure or scent,
without perceptions at all.

To seek without finding,
to find what is not sought.
Greeted by unknown spirits
in fleeting moments lucid

Dreaming and drifting from sleep to wake.
To find the fantasy, the phantasm
of myth, of story, of hope, of delusion.

Ever failing knowledge;
consistency tested and broken.
To greet the wisdom of foolishness,
admit you know no-thing.

And that is what you never knew.
Entering the gateless gates,
crossing a fading bridge.

Jared Cowan
9/10/08