I Know What You Need to Do

“Learn to distinguish reality from illusion.” ~Harari 

Have faith. Illusions exist.

They can be winnowed like chaff

From the real. Know what chaff is?

Eat raw. Speak of your sorrow.

Write of your grief. Do not sound

The sea-floor’s rifts of beliefs.

Why don’t you pay attention

To what I say to myself

When I read? We are afraid

That at bottom the monster

That scares us doesn’t exist,

That we won’t care what we mean

If not one word really is.

We will never be better

Than this. Something, however,

Will be better than we were,

If you insist. I would curse

In small walnut coracles

Of water-repellent words,

If my curses could carry

Anyone safely to shore.

(Another arrow can be

Imagined as motionless

At this point in this instant.)

Have you ever hit someone

In the face with your closed fist?

For real? Yes. Riddle me this.