[Poetry] Gospels of Procession

[Elven Doritos]

And I was asked,
What if the spirit precedes body?
The awe, the marvel:
Form producing function,
the yearning of an essence for cohesion;
My atoms would coalesce, my dreams
would split and ache, and my whole
would be of one;

But if this is reversed?
If body precedes spirit, what is either?
A glory surpassing glory,
A forethought surpassing thought,
The forms taken of function,
Eyes taken from light, and thus
Illumination taken from darkness,
A wholeness taken from absence,
A spirit dreamed from aching;

This is the private species of my joy,
the candle which enlightens my benighted wonder.

[Elven Doritos]

Is the thunder lightning's child?
Does the crooked bolt forbear the shatter?
Or, having no prejudice,
Does the nimbus birth shadow and echo as twins?

[Elven Doritos]

Where there is winter, once there was spring
In summer, a hidden autumn;

Where once were strangers, I yield to neighbors
From ignorance, revealed community;

Where now is violence, there could be peace
To vigilance, deception is a foe.

[Elven Doritos]

An icon was carved against the stone
leading Joshua and his brother James
to marvel at its inscription.

So inspired by this icon, Joshua bears a
vision,

And in this vision, the world is recreated
in pain.

Can antiquity persist against
the violence of relevance?

Or must wisdom be a changeling to
perpetuate?

Must obscurity be abolished for every
generation?

In this, ignorance is an enemy
with circumstance as its template.

[Elven Doritos]

That which is created
is eventually destroyed,
and what persists may only
be salvaged from ruins.

But that which is assembled
may be disassembled,
its components analyzed,
its flaws denounced.

[Elven Doritos]

I spoke,
and when I spoke,
a vibration was begotten,
and from that sound I issued form.

Lips, teeth, tongue, throat, and nose,
harmonious in hallelujah.

[Elven Doritos]

When I could see, I saw;
Until that time, I knew nothing of sight.

When I saw you, I knew of you,
Until that time, what could I have known?

Without darkness, you meant nothing;
Without ignorance, knowledge lacks its value.

Where knowledge is lacking, teach!  And learn!
Even one who lives in darkness may know much about a shadow.
It is through condescension that one assumes a mantle,
it is through such weight that ignorance disguises itself as truth.

Pray not for the ignorant, for they have much to learn;
Pity the one who thinks himself as knowing all.