A Brother's History
Number 1, Beginning to beginning
Brother, what happened? It was not long ago that we were young, vibrant, climbing rocks, thinking they were mountains, And fixing the world in our long and rambling conversations.
When was it? Not terribly long ago in time, back, when Mom was with us still, Daddy too, that we could talk, sensibly, Until the Monster’s claws drew you away.
Where was it? The demons invaded in that other country, the chemical shaman cast out the fiends for a time, But demons are the Monster’s nurtured children.
Who is inside? The brain is not empty, but full of memories in pictures, with eyes that see What we cannot. The untethered brain traps the body.
How to end? Seeing life’s illusions is step one to, well, not the end, but the transition we all walk Through to the Far Country. There the Mystery unravels, the same threads to begin a new weaving.