Religious Ego by Tony Ashenden

Gritty shell

Church within an egg

I watch the moulder of your stone

In envy

Of the subtle grain that clings together

Unperturbed

Disdainful of my changing face.

I even see

Your smoke washed splints of mortar

Laughing into faces.

Stilton memories I achieved

And could not

Stop the wooden green from going rot.

Words I spoke

Whilst sitting buttocks down upon the egg

Fragile shell

Withholding my perceptive children

Like I did

I crushed it thinking

It was the Godly given bolster chair

Comfort of my conceit.

Hoopla play your arches

Round my helpless thoughts of demolition

Law enforcing

Dung to give its place to cleansing water.

Spit with glee

They the dying grain to blood my eye

As cold

My thought it turns the hand

Round the chisel’s grasp.

Oh monument

I built you in the lesser times

Subservient was the stone

To my design of

Of the paper and the oh so easy

Pen of righteousness.

Why you hideous now?

And the gargoyle

Split unto the four points

Have not lost an eye or tongue

Whilst the silver

Of my altar laid with blessing

Has passed

And changed between the Bread and Wine

To mint within the careful hand

Of Mammon’s vestal virgins.

I might scratch

Pull faces in the dusty pews

Leave the mark of

My defiance for the Vicar and his white stain.

Might sit again

Upon the egg and in my sleep

Disembowel the precious yoke

From the wasted shell

Would not budge to see

Where its yellow river blended to the brown.

But even now your grey oppresses me

Turns my anger

Into tempered scalpels of destruction.

And my belly trembles

Fear upon the thought of sleeping

Being blind again.

-TONY ASHENDEN

Tony is a seasoned traveller; a computer analyst, seaman, shaman, and a complementary alternative therapist. He is a writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. In his own words – Life is real only then when I am. Please visit his blog Mine Quick Voice of Aquarius to read more of his work.

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