Swallow a Soul

"Swallow a Soul" - Poem by BW Derge from "A Doomed, Faceless, Abstract Idea with Possible Deeper Meaning Presented Through the Medium of Poetry" - written in 2005 at St. John's at Prospect Hall in Frederick, MD - studying creative writing and the therapeutic uses of swallowing a soul

Hungry for new creation,

A direction targeted by few-

Or else doomed to sit in seclusion

As forever the world passes by-

The mind opiates,

We fade away together-

Eat and cycle and smoke

And write and draw and die

Finally fucking die already

Go sleep with the plants-

Dissolve into bacterial criteria.

Did we become human for a reason?

Or is it the result of chemical instability?

I stopped by a creek and observed

The speeding flow of the clear current

Pushing the water through to a soul-

Is it peace the stream demands of me?

Or does it crave I go insane?

The farther out I search for love

The deeper I feel pain-

But the last thing I wish to do

Is poop on someone else’s cake

Even if I ate all mine up

And I crave yours to take-

Have your fun.

Take the fire with you-

There is peace in emptiness,

There is nothing I can do-

by BW Derge

Poem was originally written in 2005

Swallow a Soul – Therapeutic Uses of Swallowing a Soul