Changing Definitions

In person and up front about the embolism
About the necessary incisions and intrusions
Into the flesh and into the psych
Yet never penetrating the rubber embossment
Never reaching the soul estate

Unflinching in times of acrimony
Unyielding to the constant battering
Of unreasonable search and seizure
Of unprotected sex and unbecoming affronts
Of changing definitions and shallow analyses

Take my blood and my sweat and my coffee
Take my relentless need to extrapolate
Hold my childhood memories and retro sentiments
Stop my material lust and my own recognizance
Save my misdemeanors, my changes, and my deities

Conjuring organized anxiety attacks
Unbothered by leaking paradigms
Unfettered by sterile expressions
Refusing to accept or succumb
Denying the witness and the transcript
Pretending to agree and to obey

Cosmic turbulence and common secrets
High-ranking officials and soiled diapers
Benevolent savants and Bohemian daydreams
Secular commandments and scientific dogmas
Gifts of reason and hopes of freedom

Freedom