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Hate for First Things

from Ekphrasis by Urban Vitamin

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Sky at five is clean and clear
as the old adept’s asystole.
In this light there is togetherness.
Thought is in flesh and the flesh in thought
My eye is sharp and the bowstring’s taut.
In this light there is togetherness

In the light of no surprise
where muscle and fibre know my mind
this arm, aching and ugly, is mine.

No hate for first things here
No praise, no blame, no toothless two-minds

Dead nerves sometimes twitch
In the limbs and the lips we once did use
To wrap our lovers
to kiss and kill each other.

In the light of no surprise
Heavy with the dead
It is mine
What door, what passage back to more?

Heavy with the dead,
Heavy with the ghosts of then.

Air at six is mist and haze.
I’m anxious now for familiar shapes.
In this light there is forgetfulness.
Broken bones and broken will
My eye is poor and my arm is weak.
In this light there is forgetfulness.

Should it surprise us when
morning is a prelude to reproach.
Should it surprise us when
morning is a prelude to reproach.

Should it surprise us when
This cruel light shows us exactly as we are.
Should it surprise us when
This cruel light recalls the day of our decline.

What door? What passage back to more?
Heavy with the dead
No hate here.

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from Ekphrasis, released February 3, 2017

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Urban Vitamin Pretoria, South Africa

Urban Vitamin is an alternative metal band from Pretoria, South Africa, formed in 2008 by members, Cobus Nigrini, Rick De Villiers, Neville Botha, and Cicero Carstens. In 2014, Ricky Dunningham took over on drum duties after Rick De Villiers left to complete his PhD in Durham, UK. ... more

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