[Suzerain of Sheol]

Here's one I just wrote tonight for class tomorrow. My professor is urging us to experiment with form, so... that's what I'm doing here. Not really my favored way to write poetry, but I don't think it came out too horribly.

Edit: I hate trying to format things. Those aren't supposed to be offset from each other on the right and left by a line like they are, they should be on the same line. This editor hates me.

Adam Kadmon

Reflection

Looking glass held to the abyss

Love of God or Love of Wisdom?

Necessity of Being

Genius

I exist

Who observes?
Truth transcended
I Am only what I Am
Totality

Beauty and Terror

For you alone

Can I do wrong?

I must release myself

Who Am I?
Can I be loved?

I tremble

Timeless

A plague among stars

Learning to imagine pain

Do I know guilt?

Origin eludes me

I cannot move
And yet
I
s h u d d e r

What is this
that I have wrought?

Explanation for those interested.

The form is supposed to be the image of the Sephirotic Tree of Life, emanating from the godhead of the Autogenetic Primal Man (Adam Kadmon) and descending through the various hypostases of the mind of God until reaching the physical world at its root where mortal humanity lies.

It's also an exploration of the human mind (divorced of any spiritualistic context in this case) and the impulses on a subconscious level, the relationship we have with ourselves, how we come to view ourselves as life imprints itself upon us, etc.