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A Momentary Grok

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By Andrew C McDonaldPublished about a year ago Updated about a year ago 2 min read
A Momentary Grok
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Erupting from my bed, from a blissful nirvana

In the midst of a vision of harmonious lucidity

So astoundingly perfectly truthful

There could be no chance of duplicity

I’d had a moment …

A moment of perfect clarity

It was world shaking

So perfect in its formless rarity

….

I grokked this crystalline lattice

Formed of thinly spun sugar

Tenuous, breakable, a soap bubble

Sneezed out like a virtual booger

From this day forward my life, our lives

This day to day grinding drudge

Would never be the same

Since this fecund life altering nudge

I understood the “WHY?!”

I had glimpsed behind the curtain

I must pay attention to the man

Of this one thing I was certain

I knew instantly

My grasp was tenuous at best

So I grabbed for my notebook

Before it could migrate west

My EUREKA! moment must be recorded

For all posterity to share

For not to enlighten the masses

Would be horrifically, terribly unfair

My notebook was a wasteland

Neither a sheet nor a scrap

My pen was out of ink

This scene not a wrap

As my mind screamed in anguish

A cleansing, brain scraping tornado built

Morphing my mindscape to a vast barren desert

Littered with scattered grains of literary guilt

My shaky house of cards

That perfectly formed monumental edifice

Was lifted, torn from it’s foundation

My masterpiece thrown bodily from the precipice

My Mona Lisa, my David … Falling, dwindling

Disappearing into the bottomless abyss

In agony of loss, I threw myself after it

I plunged from atop the proverbial cliffs

I fell into a whirling morass

Of seething chaotic energy

Knowing if once lost

Never would I regain this synergy

Nooooooooo! I screamed… I cried

I cannot lose this epiphany!

Humanity must know!

Must hear this wondrous symphony

Once known all would fall down to weep

With wonder at the sheer beauty

Of this my bawling brain child

Elucidation of the masses my ultimate duty

My vision dissipated, my mind’s eye went blind

It’s psychedelic canvas faded to shrouded grey

My once in a lifetime masterful stroke of grok

Having slipped it’s tenuous mooring lazily drifted away

I reached rock bottom

The sub basement of Hell

My beautiful universe altering discovery

Had heard death’s keening knell

All humanity would now be poorer

Though they would never be aware

Of the loss they had suffered

Only I would know or care

My family found me there

Gibbering, mumbling, pawing

My head cradled in my cramped hands

Fingers clenched, lips bloody with gnawing

Crimson scribble adorned my wall

Funneling, runnelling in spattered drips

A stillborn fetus’ life’s blood

Clotting in unreadable comedic strips

Now I spend my every moment

Banging my head against padded walls

Trying to jar loose the wondrous epiphany

That had graced then ghosted my literary halls

Sorry humanity.. I tried

Time for my pills? Thanks doc

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Inspired by the twisted literary genius of another vocal media poet..

Thank you Brenton F. for the inspiration.

Follow this link to read his poem Ermagerd:

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About the Creator

Andrew C McDonald

Andrew McDonald was a 911 dispatcher for 30 yrs with a B.S. in Math (1985). He served as an Army officer 1985 to 1992, honorably exiting a captain.

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Keys-Andrew-C-McDonald-ebook/dp/B07VM843XL?ref_=ast_author_dp

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  • Brenabout a year ago

    This is truly a thing of pure beauty Andrew! Grok Yes!

  • Oh my, this was so intense, lol. I loved it!

  • Grz Colmabout a year ago

    Loving your style and sense of humour here. This really is a terrific piece about creating and the audience. Brenton is a gun too! Anyway well done Andrew. 👍😊

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