fulgural laminate wayfaring

             drag around ideas until
        they spring to life in blazing color;
           surf out on the stars until
        they yield their incandescent truth --

          sell your first desires to get
           a taste of what forever means;
         bring your plans and schedules to
        a place where time's for letting go

               and know the way,
              the night, the view,
         the empathy that makes you, you;
              and taste the edge,
              the edge of thought,
          a caravan ballet of splendor,
           spread across the universe
     in hues of contraindicated pleasures --

             spare the child and spoil
        the very rod of what it means to feel;
           glowing like an lantern, there
          the carbon filament you dragged

                  to lighting

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